“It’s just gorgeous,” Rav Elya Meir Sorotzkin Shlita told the borough’s board of adjustment Wednesday after seeing the North Plainfield mansion. Rabbi Sorotzkin, who is the Rosh Yeshiva of Springfield Yeshiva has been in desperate search for a new building – due to some issues – one of them, the growth of the Yeshiva.

“I am completely enraptured by the beauty of it,” he said after seeing the 19th-century McCutchen mansion – which is a 15,000-square-foot Queen Anne that anchors North Plainfield’s Washington Park Historic District. The property has an adjoining empty lot, which Rabbi Sorotzkin plans to build his home.

Allen Rosenberg, the real estate agent hired to market the property, told the Star Ledger that while terms of the sale have not been disclosed, it was on the market for $2.25 million. Rosenberg said he had three separate inquiries from yeshivas to purchase the property.

Public hearings will continue at the board’s next meeting on September 19. The board will hear testimony from various people including Rebbitzen Sorotzkin, who is responsible for the cooking and the general upkeep of the Yeshiva. The Yeshiva’s architect also will testify.

The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Senior Center, 614 Greenbrook Road.

Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch, which B”H has close to 100 Bochrim, is currently housed upstate NY at Chaim Berlin’s Camp Morris until Succos.