@properties The couple who rescued a Kenilworth mansion that is layered with historical connections sold it after nine years on the market and almost $4 million in price cuts. Sharron and Gerald Putnam sold the six-bedroom, 10,700-square-foot house on Essex Road on May 11 for $5 million. They first put it on the market in April 2012 at $8.95 million. More The Putnams bought the house in 2004, when it was in decline and most likely to sell to developers who would replace it with two new homes on the four-tenths of an acre site. It was on Landmarks Illinois’ list of the most endangered sites in the state that year, and the couple stepped in and paid $4.2 million, vowing to restore it to its original glory.