Legendary celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has placed a historic California farm for sale for less than $9 million.
Leibovitz, 74, bought the roughly 65-acre farm with ocean views in Bolinas in 2019 for $7.5 million. At the time, Leibovitz said she thought she would spend more time on the West Coast. She later spent about $2 million renovating and upgrading the property's infrastructure.
"I had always thought of myself as a California person," she said, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. "I went to school there, at the San Francisco Art Institute. I learned to be a photographer there. When Rolling Stone moved to New York in 1977, I didn't think that I was moving too. I didn't believe that I went to New York to stay. I thought I lived in California. But the work was in New York. Or Europe. After all those years living and working in New York and raising my children, I dreamed about returning to California."
This month, she listed the same property for sale for $8.995 million.
Inside Leibovitz's California Farm
The farm, nicknamed The Hideaway, is nestled on a 65-acre property with views of Bolinas Lagoon, Stinson Beach, Mount Tamalpais, the Pacific Ocean, and San Francisco. The property, which dates back to the 1800s, is also near bird and seal sanctuaries in the city.
The residential portion of the farm features four structures, including a four-bedroom home built in the 1920s, a one-bedroom guesthouse, and a caretaker's residence. In addition, the residential space is also home to a barn built in the 1930s, a banquet hall with a performance stage, a second larger barn with seven stalls for horses, a barn for hay, a dairy barn, and a converted garage.
Leibovitz renovated the residence after a purchase, adding a new kitchen. However, she preserved some of the property's vintage charm, including leaving a rotary phone hanging on the wall.
The listing is held by Alexander Fromm Lurie.
Leibovitz previously owned a compound in Manhattan's West Village, which she sold for $28.5 million in 2013. She also owned a 228-acre spread in Rhinebeck, per Curbed.
