Theodor Geisel — Dr. Seuss to legions of children young and old — once called this leafy corner of La Jolla home. The property surfaced on the open market recently courtesy of present owner UC San Diego. It has never been for sale in its 72-year existence.

The occasion represents a unique opportunity to own the custom-built house where the good doc invented millinery-minded cats, off-color breakfasts, Dickensian Xmas-haters and the numerous characters that trod his phantasmagorical fantasy landscape. The University was granted the property after Geisel’s widow died in 2018. Geisel died in 1991.

The price is $18.995 million for the whole caboodle, according to Dirt, but the estate has been portioned out in four discrete offerings. All told, the compound measures in at roughly four acres.

The residence is perched on a 1.51-acre lot, and contains four bedrooms and five baths across 5,004 sq. ft. of interior living area. It was completed in 1950, and features a clay tile roof and a rambling footprint. Interior details include at least three fireplaces and an office; outside, a swimming pool with a tile surround is featured, along with the views afforded by the estate’s hilltop locale.