Dr. Seuss’ $19M hilltop estate lists for the first time in 75 years

“You are disconnected to large places! Today is your day! Your upland is waiting, truthful … get connected your way!”

That punctuation from “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Theodor Seuss Geisel — besides known arsenic the large Dr. Seuss — is fitting, considering his sprawling California property has deed the marketplace for the archetypal clip successful astir 75 years.

Located successful La Jolla, the location wherever Dr. Seuss thought up the whimsical worlds of “The Grinch” and “The Cat successful the Hat” has been owned by the University of California San Diego implicit the past fewer years.

The spot was talented to the assemblage successful 2019 by Dr. Seuss’ precocious wife, Audrey Stone Diamond.

Proceeds from the merchantability are expected to spell into the recently created Geisel Fund of the UC San Diego Foundation to beryllium utilized for field projects determined by the assemblage chancellor, a spokesperson said.

Comprised of 4 parcels totaling much than 4 acres, the backstage hillside compound boasts 270-degree ocean, coastline and upland views of Southern California, the listing explains.

The location is situated connected 4-plus acres. Barry Estates

The excavation overlooks the Southern California ocean. Barry Estates

Any imaginable purchaser has the enactment to acquisition each 4 sites for $19 cardinal oregon independently, ranging from $4 cardinal to $12 million.

Jason Barry of the Jason Barry Team astatine Barry Estates holds the listing.

“This is arguably 1 of the astir spectacular 4+ acre sites connected the West seashore boasting breathtaking 270 grade coastline and Mountain views,” Barry told The Post. “Ted Geisel could person chosen anyplace successful the satellite to unrecorded and helium chose this hilltop property successful La Jolla. This is simply a once-in-a-generation property; it has not been disposable successful 75 years and erstwhile it is gone, it is gone.”

Interested buyers should taxable their bids by Wednesday, Aug. 17, by 5 p.m. and are expected to wage each cash, the listing states.

A representation shows 3 tons for sale, which were portion of Dr. Seuss’ 4-acre location connected Mount Soledad.Barry Estates

Dr. Seuss with his Irish setter, Cluny, and immoderate proofs of his enactment by the borderline of a swimming excavation astatine his location successful La Jolla, California, connected April 25, 1957.Getty Images

American writer and illustrator Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) works successful his La Jolla location bureau connected April 25, 1957.Getty Images

Dr. Seuss and his archetypal wife, Helen, built the four-bedroom, four-bath location atop Mount Soledad connected an aged reflection operation connected Encelia Drive successful 1948. Following Helen’s decease successful 1967, helium joined Audrey and the 2 lived unneurotic successful the location until his decease successful 1991.

Audrey died successful the location successful 2018. Having been an avid protagonist of UC San Diego, she donated $20 cardinal to the field for the school’s library, aboriginal named Geisel Library aft Dr. Seuss.

The room present houses the also-donated Dr. Seuss Collection of sketches and drawings and different Seuss memorabilia.

Dr. Seuss points toward thing successful the region portion his wife, Helen, prepares to instrumentality a photograph extracurricular of their location successful La Jolla, California, connected April 25, 1957.Getty Images

In caller months, “cancel culture” has tampered the bequest of Dr. Seuss. Six of his children’s books were yanked from work because of what immoderate referred to arsenic racism.

The institution that oversees the publishing of Dr. Seuss’s works said it scrapped the six books — “If I Ran the Zoo,” “And to Think That I Saw It connected Mulberry Street,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “The Cat’s Quizzer’,” “On Beyond Zebra!” and “Scrambled Eggs Super!” — due to the fact that they “portray radical successful ways that are hurtful and wrong.”

“We believed that it was clip to instrumentality action,” DSE told The Post successful a statement.

“We listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists successful the field, too, arsenic portion of the reappraisal process.”

Additionally, it was announced that a bid of unseen sketches drawn by Dr. Seuss volition beryllium edited by an “inclusive” radical of writers and artists from “diverse radical backgrounds” earlier they are published for the archetypal time.