To: everyone · From: Winnetka, Illinois
The house is real. Most of what happens inside it was built in a school gym.
Photographs: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0; NBC, Public domain.
671 Lincoln Avenue
The McCallister house is 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, a suburb north of Chicago. Home Alone 2 came back to it. It is a red-brick Georgian house built in 1921, with five bedrooms on a little over half an acre.
It was fully renovated and enlarged in 2018. The front door and the central staircase Kevin sleds down survived. Listed in May 2024 at $5.25 million, it drew a $5.5 million offer within a week; the sale was reported in January 2025. By December 2025 the new owners were reported to be restoring parts of the house towards its look on screen.
A private family home. Look from the pavement on Lincoln Avenue, briefly and quietly; stay off the drive and the lawn.
An empty order. Ten pizzas is the film’s order.
Each pie here is the 1990 total divided by ten.
The battle plan · section A–A
11 of Kevin’s traps, where he put them in the house. In 2019 an engineer at Brigham Young University, John Salmon, scored each one out of five for whether it would really work.
Nothing set yet.
0 of 11 set.
Scores are John Salmon’s, for BYU Design Review. He left out the BB gun, which he says isn’t a trap, and the tarantula.
Northfield, a few miles away
The director, Chris Columbus, and the cinematographer, Julio Macat, decided the real house would not work inside.
A house in Winnetka, as the film shows it. Now take it apart.
The campus opened as New Trier West in 1965 and closed in 1985. Uncle Buck was shot there too; it now teaches first-year students.
A working school. See it from Happ Road; the buildings are not open to visitors.
Harry and Marv
Two burglars breaking into the neighbourhood’s empty houses at Christmas. Marv always leaves the water running.
The tap is off.
Joe Pesci plays Harry and Daniel Stern plays Marv; Marv floods the houses they burgle, and that is how the police identify them.
Wilmette and Oak Park
1024 Lake Avenue, Wilmette
The church you see from outside is Trinity United Methodist, on Lake Avenue in Wilmette. Its inside is not in the film: the church interiors were shot in Oak Park.
An active church. See it from Lake Avenue; go in for services or open events only.
924 Lake Street, Oak Park
The church interiors were filmed at Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake Street, Oak Park.
An active church. See it from Lake Street; go in for services or open events only.
Outside: Wilmette, on the North Shore.
The family’s dash for the plane was filmed at O’Hare, which also played the Paris airport they land at.
Tap to run. Keep tapping.
Two years later O’Hare was back, standing in for New York’s JFK.
You may well land here. The terminals are public; the family’s run was filmed in the airport.
Chicago and the North Shore
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Compare toursHome Alone 2: Lost in New York · 1992
Home Alone 2 is set in New York. Stamp each postcard with the city where the scene was really shot.
The Plaza lobby
Duncan’s Toy Chest, the shop front
Duncan’s Toy Chest, inside
Carnegie Hall, from the rafters
The Pigeon Lady’s bridge
The family’s suite
Landing at JFK
Rockefeller Center
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768 Fifth Avenue, New York · Stays until 31 December 2026 · price on request
Kevin’s hotel sells a Home Alone stay: a private limousine past filming locations (not a guided tour), a large cheese pizza and a sundae with 16 scoops. Book direct with the hotel, at least three days ahead; no price is published.
See the offer209 South LaSalle Street, Chicago · Weekdays, 10am–1pm · 45 minutes · $15
A guided tour inside Duncan’s Toy Chest’s shop front: the light court Frank Lloyd Wright redesigned in 1905. Every visitor needs a ticket.
Book a tour720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Its Conrad Hilton Suite is the family’s New York suite at the end of Home Alone 2. Opened in 1927 as the Stevens Hotel, on Grant Park.
Check roomsChristmas morning · Central Park
Mr. Duncan gives Kevin a pair of ceramic turtle doves; on Christmas morning Kevin gives one to the Pigeon Lady, as a sign of friendship.
Both doves are still in Kevin’s hands.
In Central Park Kevin meets the Pigeon Lady, played by Brenda Fricker. The Central Park Conservancy names Gapstow Bridge, over the Pond, as the bridge from Home Alone 2.
A public park, open daily. The bridge is a short walk into the park from the Plaza.
Home Alone 2 filmed at Rockefeller Center. Construction workers put up the first tree here in 1931; the first official lighting was in 1933. The 2026 tree arrives on 7 November and is lit on Wednesday 2 December.
Public plazas, open daily. The tree stands from late November into the new year; go late at night to avoid the crowds.
New York
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Compare tours11 places you can visit, from the North Shore to Fifth Avenue. The house is a private home: it is named here and not pinned.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working school. See it from Happ Road; the buildings are not open to visitors.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An active church. See it from Lake Avenue; go in for services or open events only.
7 Happ Road, Northfield
Most of the house’s interiors were built in the disused gym of New Trier High School’s west campus.
A working school. See it from Happ Road; the buildings are not open to visitors.
1024 Lake Avenue, Wilmette
The church you see from outside is Trinity United Methodist, on Lake Avenue in Wilmette.
An active church. See it from Lake Avenue; go in for services or open events only.
Stay
The Plaza sells its own Home Alone stay; the Hilton Chicago has the family’s suite.
768 Fifth Avenue, New York · Stays until 31 December 2026 · price on request
Kevin’s hotel sells a Home Alone stay: a private limousine past filming locations (not a guided tour), a large cheese pizza and a sundae with 16 scoops. Book direct with the hotel, at least three days ahead; no price is published.
See the offer720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Its Conrad Hilton Suite is the family’s New York suite at the end of Home Alone 2. Opened in 1927 as the Stevens Hotel, on Grant Park.
Check roomsGo there
The house is private and the school is working; the toy shop’s front has tours, and New York is public.
209 South LaSalle Street, Chicago · Weekdays, 10am–1pm · 45 minutes · $15
A guided tour inside Duncan’s Toy Chest’s shop front: the light court Frank Lloyd Wright redesigned in 1905. Every visitor needs a ticket.
Book a tourChicago and the North Shore
Live marketplace results for Home Alone and film tours around Chicago and the North Shore. Check each itinerary: the house is private and seen from the street.
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Compare toursNew York
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John Williams’s music with a full orchestra in Gateshead and Chicago this December, and the tree lighting in New York.
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Take it home
Picture-book versions of both films and John Williams’s two soundtracks.
Kim Smith · Quirk Books
The film as an illustrated picture book, 2015.
Find the bookKim Smith · Quirk Books
The sequel as an illustrated picture book.
Find the bookJohn Williams · CD, Masterworks, 2015
John Williams’s score, reissued for the 25th anniversary.
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Find a copyJohn Williams · CD, Fox Records, 1992
The sequel’s soundtrack on its first CD release, 1992.
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Find a copyDates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
12 of 12 places · 19 of 19 Moments
671 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka
Left behind at Christmas, Kevin rigs the house with booby traps for two burglars, Harry and Marv.
Marv floods every house they burgle, and that habit is how the police identify them.
Ten pizzas from Little Nero’s for $122.50.
The house sells for $5.5 million and its new owners restore parts of it towards its film look.
The Library of Congress adds Home Alone to the National Film Registry.
7 Happ Road, Northfield
The house’s interiors are built in a school gym, and its basement in the empty pool.
The tarantula that walks over Daniel Stern’s face is real.
1024 Lake Avenue, Wilmette
The church exterior.
924 Lake Street, Oak Park
The church interiors.
10000 West O’Hare Avenue, Chicago
The family sprints through O’Hare for the flight to Paris, without Kevin.
O’Hare plays the Paris airport where they land.
O’Hare stands in for JFK in New York.
209 South LaSalle Street, the Loop
The Rookery is the toy shop’s front.
4816 North Broadway, Uptown
The Uptown Theatre is the toy shop’s inside.
720 South Michigan Avenue
The family’s New York suite is the Conrad Hilton Suite in Chicago.
220 South Michigan Avenue
Symphony Center stands in for Carnegie Hall.
768 Fifth Avenue, at 59th Street
Kevin checks himself into the Plaza, alone.
The Pond, near 59th Street and Fifth Avenue
Kevin gives the Pigeon Lady one of his two turtle doves.
Rockefeller Plaza, Midtown
Home Alone 2 films at Rockefeller Center.
The collection continues in each film. Individual film pages become available here when published.
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