The five-bedroom, 8,964-square-foot New England manor-style mansion in Hinsdale that former Chicago Blackhawks head coach Joel Quenneville and his wife, Elizabeth, sold in January 2021 for $4.27 million sold again in June in an off-market transaction for $5 million.
For years, Quenneville, who won three Stanley Cup titles for the Blackhawks before he was fired in 2019, and his wife had rented a home in Hinsdale. Then, in 2016, the couple paid close to $2 million through an opaque land trust for a 0.82-acre lot on South Oak Street in southeast Hinsdale, and they built a mansion.
Quenneville and his wife sold the house in early 2021 after he began serving as the head coach for the Florida Panthers. However, he left his job with the Panthers several months later after an investigation into how the Blackhawks had responded to claims that a former video coach had sexually assaulted a Blackhawks prospect during the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Quenneville currently is not barred from coaching in the NHL, but according to news accounts, he is required to meet with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman before returning, and it isn’t known if Bettman has signed off on allowing Quenneville to return.
In Hinsdale, Quenneville’s former house has seven bathrooms, five fireplaces, a grand foyer, wide-plank hardwood floors, a butler’s pantry linking the dining room and the kitchen, a first-floor office, a mudroom and a kitchen with designer appliances, a large marble center island, dual sinks, a casual eating area and a more intimate lounge space centered around a stone fireplace.
Other features include a primary bedroom suite with large walk-in closets and a marble bath with dual vanities, a second-floor laundry room, a second-floor sitting room, a lower level with a rec room with two lounge spaces, a wet bar, a wine cellar and a private guest bedroom suite.
Outside on the property are a pool, a stone patio and a covered and heated outdoor living room with a fireplace, a grill, a refrigerator and a TV.
The buyers of the house are a Hinsdale couple, while the seller is an opaque land trust whose beneficiary could not be determined. Dawn McKenna, who represented both parties in the transaction when the Quennevilles sold the mansion in 2021, did not respond to a request for comment.
The mansion had a $75,249 property tax bill in the 2022 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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