Address: 505 E. Los Olivos Street
Status: On the Market
Price: $12,000,000
I have not been much of a churchgoer in my adult years, preferring to find spirituality in nature, and ponder life’s big questions via conversations rather than through organized religion. But walking through the Mount Calvary Monastery property last week, I was inspired by more than the views and lush gardens. As I felt the stone walls crafted by hand in the 1800s and listened carefully in the chapel, I felt a palpable otherworldly aura that struck me as sacred.
The location alone is deserving of reverence. The property at 505 E. Los Olivos Street boasts the Old Mission Santa Barbara as its next-door neighbor to one side and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History as its neighbor to the rear, just across Mission Creek.