Here is my video tour of the oldest home in Carlsbad. The owners prefer if the buyer preserves the house, and it is only right – it is the only thing like it in town.
Hopefully the large 1.27-acre lot will enable the new owners to develop the remaining land to fulfill their investment, or just create the ultimate family compound!
Special thanks to Compass listing agent Gina Vreeberg for allowing me to publish this video tour of the oldest house in Carlsbad! @ginavreesellsre
https://www.compass.com/listing/3140-highland-drive-carlsbad-ca-92008/748996408467865465/
Nearly identical to the Faulkner Farm in Santa Paula now owned by the Hansen Trust.
Hansen the beverage company?
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Like I mentioned, the interior is near identical to this house right down to the giant pocket doors to close off the sitting room. This is one of those famous places you have seen many times but did not know it. Vignettes in dozens of movies.
The history of the Center begins with the Thelma Hansen estate. Miss Hansen, a UC Berkeley graduate, returned to Ventura County in the 1920’s and took over business operations of the Hansen family farm. Thelma developed a deep understanding and appreciation of the importance of agriculture and became an advocate for the conservation of natural resources. This led her to endow a generous portion of her estate to the University of California. Following her death, The Thelma Hansen Fund was created in 1993 to support and maintain University research and extension activities for the sustainability and benefit of agriculture and natural resources in Ventura County. The Hansen Fund operated out of the UC Cooperative Extension-Ventura County office until 1997 when the University purchased the 27-acre farm known as the Faulkner Farm. The Center is the newest of the nine Research and Extension Centers System (RECS) facilities.
I grew up in Carlsbad in the 60’s and 70’s. As kids, this house was rumored to having a witch living there. My mom and dad paid $17.5k in 1960 for a 3 bed 2 bath ranch at 2051 Janis Way. The home is now a two story. I miss the old Carlsbad like I’m sure there’s plenty of us who grew up in Carlsbad during a primo time.