California home of Theodore Geisel for sale by UCSD

UC San Diego has set the La Jolla residence in which the late Theodor Geisel wrote many of his beloved Dr. Seuss children’s guides up for sale for nearly $12 million.

The 5,000-sq.-foot home sits on 1.51 acres on Mount Soledad with 270-diploma sights of the ocean, shoreline and mountains in San Diego, California.

“This residence is arguably one particular of the most amazing ocean, coastline and mountain see sites on the West Coast,” Jason Barry of Barry Estates, which holds the listing, informed the Sacramento Bee in an email. “It genuinely is 1 of a sort, obtaining not been out there in 75 a long time, giving a residence and a few contiguous loads. When its absent, its long gone.”

The value tag for the overall four-parcel estate is $18.995 million, which contains the household ($11.995 million), two heaps of almost an acre each individual for $4.495 million and a .59-acre lot for $3.995 million, in accordance to Barry Estates. The listing for all parcels went live June 27, 2022.

The university acquired the assets from the Geisel Rely on in 2019.

“7301 Encelia Travel was the extensive-time household of Audrey and Theodor Geisel, famously identified as Dr. Seuss,” UC San Diego said in a statement. “The residence was gifted to the college. When this home is sold, the internet proceeds from the sale will make the Geisel Fund in the UC San Diego Basis, which will be an endowment. Per the wishes of the donor, the Chancellor will ascertain the use of the payout from the endowed fund for campus wants.”

Audrey Geisel was a major supporter of UCSD, in accordance to the Los Angeles Times. Her donation of $20 million helped expand the college’s most important library and led to the making becoming renamed Geisel Library, the newspaper reported. She died in 2018.

Theodor Geisel, who died in 1991, wrote the children’s classics “The Cat in the Hat,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” to name a couple.

“When you are at the pinnacle of accomplishment, it only tends to make perception you would want one particular of the most amazing qualities in the earth,” according to the house listing for the pink-tiled Mediterranean-design hillside compound.

This story was at first published August 3, 2022 12:01 PM.