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• Single Family
• 4 Beds
• 6 Full Baths
• 2 Partial Baths
• 14,205 Sq. Ft.
• 6 Car Garage
• Updated 14 hours ago

4801 Baseline Avenue, Santa Ynez, CA 93460View this property at 4801 Baseline Avenue, Santa Ynez, CA 93460

4801 Baseline AvenueSanta YnezCA93460

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Full Property Details

Full Property Details for 4801 Baseline Ave

General

• Price: $34,500,000
• Status: Active
• Type: Single Family
• MLS ID: 21795828
• Updated: 10/15/2021
• Added: 1 day(s) ago

Interior

• Rooms/Areas: Bonus Room, Dressing Area, Entry, Family Room, Formal Entry, Guest/Maid's Quarters, Living Room, Master Bathroom, Office, Walk-In Closet, Wine Cellar
• Fireplace: Yes
• Fireplace(s): Living Room, Family Room, Master Bedroom
• Appliances: Disposal, Refrigerator
• Flooring: Wood

Rooms

Bathrooms

• Total Bathrooms: 8
• Full Bathrooms: 6
• Half Bathrooms: 2

Bedrooms

Other Rooms

• Laundry: Washer Included, Dryer Included, Inside, Individual Room

Additional Information

• Pool: Yes
• Pool Description: In-Ground, Private
• Spa Description: In-Ground, Private

Parking

• Garage: Yes
• Garage Spaces: 6
• Parking: Garage (Three Doors), Garage, Detached Carport, Driveway, Guest

Location

• County: Santa Barbara
• Driving Directions: Off Highway 154, exit at San Marcos Pass to right on Armour Ranch Road, right on Happy Canyon Road, left on Baseline Ave

Heating & Cooling

• Cooling Type: Central Air
• Heating Type: Central

Structural Information

• Architectural Style: Mediterranean
• Structure Type: Single Family Residence
• Square Feet: 14,205
• Year Built: 2003
• Year Built Source: Assessor

Additional Structures

• Other Structures: Barn(s), Guesthouse

Lot Features

• Property View: Canyon, Lake, Mountain(s), Vineyard
• Lot Size (Acres): 59.9
• Lot Size (Sq. Ft.): 2,609,244
• Lot Size Source: Assessor
• Zoning: AG-I-20

Financial Considerations

• Price Per Sq. Ft.: $2,428.72

Disclosures and Reports

• Special Conditions: Standard

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Schools

Schools serving 4801 Baseline Ave

School Districts:Santa Ynez Valley Union High School District, College Elementary

College Elementary School

3525 Pine St, Santa Ynez, CA 93460

K-8

2.9 mi

Refugio High School

2975 E Hwy 246, Santa Ynez, CA 93460

10-12

4 mi

Disclaimer: School ratings provided by GreatSchools. Ratings are on a scale of 1-10. Learn more about GreatSchools ratings. School attendance boundaries provided by Pitney Bowes and are for reference only. Contact the school directly to verify enrollment eligibility.

Price & Sales History

Price & Sales History for 4801 Baseline AveGet Price Alerts and Save Property

10/15/2021

Listed

$34,500,000

762.5%

MLS

10/19/2011

Sold

$4,000,000

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Tax History

Tax History for 4801 Baseline Ave

2020

$78,485

—

$7,372,324

-1%

2020

$78,485

2%

$7,436,812

5%

2019

$76,904

3%

$7,092,594

2%

2018

$74,571

4%

$6,953,525

4%

2017

$71,777

16%

$6,682,184

14%

2016

$61,974

22%

$5,840,280

22%

2015

$50,966

9%

$4,794,752

9%

2014

$46,634

2%

$4,398,802

1%

2013

$45,624

—

$4,334,700

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I came to the Santa Ynez Valley in 1966, at 13 years of age. I saw storybook villages and majestic ranches, all ringed by mountains, like a cowboy’s Shangri-La.

Nostalgic desperados held quick draw contests at high noon on Saturdays, at the swap meet down by the Maverick Saloon. The Valley was like the West of legend, with Danish pastry.

I was delighted to be here from the first minute, even if some of my eighth grade classmates did seem destined for federal prisons.

It was, and still is, a small town with a sense of community. It’s a place where your voice can be heard, with safe streets, good schools, clean air. Four decades later, my most telling observation is this: Most of the people here have enough money, moxie and imagination to live anywhere in the world, and they have chosen this place to spend their lives.

For example: Viola Tuckerman Schley Hansen, who was awarded the title of “Honorary Vaquera” by the SYV Historical Society. Only the second woman to ever earn the title, pioneer cattlewoman Vi Hansen had ranched in Happy Canyon since 1939.

She was a local legend for her selfless generosity, keen intelligence, her love for the equestrian community, her 20 years with Meals on Wheels, her fine family, and so much more. Vi was a founding member of the original Equestrian Association in the 1940s.

Like her late husband Sigvard Allerslev Hansen, Vi exemplified the kind of West where you make a deal with a handshake, help those in need, and live each day with honor and integrity and a strong sense of adventure.

Sig Hansen was the Valley personified, a blend of Denmark and the old West. He left his home on the west coast of Denmark in 1929 at sixteen, driven by his Jack London-inspired dreams of the Wild West.

He jumped ship in Galveston, Texas, and made his way to Montana.

The only English he knew was, “Do you have a job for me?”

He found work as a cook’s helper on the chuck wagon on the Chappell Brothers CBC Ranch, a mammoth spread providing horses by the thousands for the U.S. Army.

The foreman, it turned out, was Danish, and had jumped ship himself in New York, years before.

“Get him a horse and a bedroll,” he declared.

“And from that moment on,” Sig told me, “I was a cowboy.”

And cowboy he did, all over the West, up to Alaska and down to Hollywood, where he rode as a stunt man in films. I hauled hay in the summertime with Sig Jr., and we frequently ate lunch at their ranch house, played poker with Sig Sr., swam, and soaked up some stories.

One day, as he beat my four aces with a royal flush, on the TV, Indians were madly chasing a stagecoach.

“Watch this Indian,” Sig Sr. said, pointing to a wild, pony-tailed savage. “He’ll lose his hair.”

Sure enough, the rider hit the dirt on the edge of the screen. As he tumbled, his ponytails flopped off.

“That was me,” Sig grinned.

His adventures led him to Costa Rica. At one time he had exclusive tuna fishing rights there.

“Starkist keeps calling,” he explained, hanging up the phone at the ranch. He had invested in a timber operation in Costa Rica, too.

“A word of advice about logging,” he confided. “Don’t.”

l He was never afraid to speak out. Once, in a cantina far back in the Nicaraguan jungle, he overheard some guerillas boasting of an attack on unarmed villagers. To his companions’ dismay, he made a point of telling the bad guys they were cowards.

“Cobardes!” he spat.

And then?

“My friends got me out of there,” he nodded soberly.

Sig mentioned a night on a small boat with a notoriously unstable dictator.

“I woke up in the middle of the night, and we were speeding full tilt in the moonlight through the reefs offshore. He was wearing a pair of pistols. Every so often he would go to the bow, and fire off the fifty caliber machine gun. If we had hit some coral, that would have been it.”

“Nothing I could do about it. I went back to sleep.”

He met a kid on the streets of Costa Rica, Enrique van Browne, who impressed him so much that Sig paid his way through school. The young man served in Vietnam, and became a prominent attorney, influential in affairs of state.

Sig Jr. and I ran into Enrique when we were hauling hay on the ranch one day. The up-from-nothing Costa Rican looked us over, sweat soaked and dirty, covered with bits of straw.

“That’s hard work,” Enrique acknowledged, adding with a twinkle in his eye and a strategic pause, “for lights.”

Sig wanted to help everyone; he had boundless optimism and energy. When I started my real estate business, he encouraged me and offered his assistance.

He was a superb rancher. Even quintessential Valley cowboy Jake Copass paid homage to Sig, writing a poem about him titled “Danish Cowboy.”

And he had perspective.

“Twenty years?” he said to me, sitting on a stool at Arne’s Solvang Restaurant. “It’s the blink of an eye.”

Sig once mentioned a Viking custom, when those legendary sailors were ready to leave this world for the next, of sailing past the horizon and burning their ship. That was what he wanted, he said. My father-in-law, who had a 32′ Grand Banks cabin cruiser, said “Remind me not to take Sig out in the boat.”

We had lunch at Panino’s in Los Olivos one sunny day in 1999, and Sig told me the story of how he came to America. A few days later, he was gone.

I was charmed by Sig’s warm, outgoing personality. I was impressed by his adventures. I was flattered by the way he treated me like family, and I loved his lift-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps life story. But what I most admired about him, and what I most cherish in Valley people, is the kindness, good-heartedness, and concern for others he exemplified.

In his 1935 poem The Years, Maynard Dixon wrote, “Ever more do I know that to win some happiness here, I must hold myself up, above petty disputes and distinctions, keeping some largeness of heart alike for those who trust me and those who distrust me.”

“Largeness of heart” is what makes the Valley special. It is a spirit to cherish. Vi Hansen had it; Sig had it. All the great ones do. In this is our hope for the future. In this fragile, evanescent soap bubble of a concept, reliant totally on good-will, rests our dreams.

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