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The red brick, Georgian house that 8-year-old Kevin McAllister defended in Home Alone , still looks the mostly the same from the outside even thirty years later. John Hughes, who grew up on the North Shore, wanted the movie to be filmed in a real neighborhood—not a set.
The filmmaker found the perfect set in the Winnetka home on Lincoln Avenue. Even though Home Alone was released in , fans still roll through the neighborhood. There are only minor changes to the exterior since filming: two white columns around the front door and a gated, iron fence around the property. Many of the iconic scenes took place in real parts of the home.
Three decades later, we take a look at this beautiful home today. In the movie, the house was located in Chicago, however, the house was really located in Winnetka, Illinois on Lincoln Ave. Before you rush off to look for it on Google Maps …. The house is no longer available to view on Google Maps. Built in , the red-brick, Georgian-style home sits on a half-acre with around 4, square feet of living space.
The property boasts five bedrooms, including a four-room master suite, which spans the entire west wing of the home, and three-and-a-half bathrooms. The owners of the home at the time of filming the movie were John and Cynthia Abendshien.
Their home would soon be transformed into a film set for the movie. This is how the house looks today, still instantly recognizable. Despite the house being a major part of the movie, few of the interior scenes were actually shot inside the real house. Director Christopher Columbus talks in the DVD commentary about recreating much of the interior on a sound stage in a high school gymnasium.
The kitchen was a major part of the movie, however, the kitchen today looks nothing like the kitchen back then. The beloved movie revolves around an 8-year-old boy, Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, whose family accidentally leaves him behind when they're going on vacation. As he's the only one around, he ends up having to protect his home from two rather inept burglars. The red-brick Georgian-Colonial home that provided the backdrop for much of the film's action exists in real life and is located in the suburb of Winnetka, Illinois, which is about 20 miles from Chicago.
Amy Wilkinson of Vanity Fair reported that the film crew used the house for exterior shots and some interior shots featuring the living room and the staircase.
Wilkinson reported that the cast and crew took several months to film at the home and while they filmed on the first floor, the Abendshien family lived in a makeshift apartment on the second floor. According to Zillow, the home sits on half an acre of land and has six bedrooms and six bathrooms.
As soon as Marissa takes viewers through the main door, which doesn't scald her palm because, as she notes, the owners are expecting her , you can see the staircase Kevin sledded down before shooting out of the main door and into the front yard. The foyer and stairs look almost identical to how they appeared in the movie over 20 years earlier. The kitchen where the family gathers to eat pizza before things start to go haywire for our young protagonist looks very similar to the kitchen in the actual house.
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