Annie Leibovitz has sold her 65-acre farm estate in the coastal Marin town of Bolinas for $8.45 million, according to property records.

The famed photographer listed the farm at 605 Horseshoe Hill Road, previously a longtime retreat for financier and hard-nosed bluegrass festival founder Warren Hellman, for just under $9 million in April.

Leibovitz attended the San Francisco Art Institute and became chief photographer at Rolling Stone but moved to New York City when the magazine moved its headquarters in 1977. He eventually planned to move back to Northern California when he bought the property in 2019 for $7.5 million and hopes to have a child, he told the Chronicle this spring when the property was listed.

But his three daughters stayed in the Northeast, and his Northern California estate sat empty instead.

“Things don’t always go as planned,” he said at the time.

Although the move didn’t pan out, Leibovitz poured $2 million into the property during his five-year ownership, particularly in the four-bedroom main house, which dates to the 1920s. In another connection to famous photographers, Ansel Adams photographed the property in the 1930s. According to a marketing site for the property, there is a guest house, workshop and two-bedroom caretaker’s residence, as well as a 200-foot year-round riding arena with a seven-stall horse barn.

It’s called The Hidden Path and was co-written by Nick Swenson and Alexander Lowry, both with Compass.

It is located in an architectural zone, and Leibovitz added stone planting terraces with new drainage and irrigation. The estate’s hay and dairy barn was transformed by music lover Hellman into a performance stage, events center and recording studio. During Hellman’s ownership, “Wonderland” was a gathering place for musicians, Lowry said via email.

Hackelman bought the property in 1991 for $1.85 million, according to public records, and owned it until his death in 2011, when he left it to his “longtime caregivers,” according to the Chronicle.

Leibovitz has sold two New York City co-ops this year, one on the Upper West Side for $10.6 million in February and another in the West Village for $8 million last month. According to public records, the buyer of his Bolinas property was Dogtown Farm LLC, managed by Karen Valadao, a tax partner in the San Jose office of CPA firm Frank Reimerman + Company, which provides family office and private wealth management services.

Swenson & Lowry also represented the buyer. Lowry, who is the brother of San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lowry, said interest for the property has been high and agents have received requests for tours from Bay Area buyers nationally and internationally.

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He could not elaborate on what the new owner has planned for the property, saying he is “excited” about it and “excited to be the next store.”

“The venue for many special events, concerts and weddings for more than a century, the Hideaway has an indelible place in history – both in the SF Bay Area as well as globally – this special space has served as a launching pad for creative inspiration for internationally renowned musical and visual artists,” said Laurie.