The Carmel-by-the-Sea Home Where Clint Eastwood Lived While Mayor Lists for $21 Million

In the 1980s, the famed actor and director Clint Eastwood spent two years as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, a small California vacation community.

Now the century-old home where he lived during that stint is coming on the market for $21 million.

The Hollywood legend—best known for movies like “Dirty Harry,” “The Bridges of Madison County” and “Million Dollar Baby”—lived in the house in the 1980s and 1990s, according to the 2016 book “Historic Homes and Inns of Carmel-by-the-Sea.”  

(Originally built around 1924, the house is located a block from the ocean. Photo: Sherman Chu)

The seller is Frederick O’Such, a retired investor in his 80s, who bought the house overlooking the ocean from a trust tied to Eastwood in 1996, property records show.

O’Such said he paid about $2.25 million for the home, and then spent another two years and $2.5 million more renovating the property.

Carmel, located about 125 miles south of San Francisco, is a coastal enclave popular with tourists and second-home owners drawn to its charming architecture and beaches; two years ago, Brad Pitt paid $40 million for a blufftop home in nearby Carmel Highlands.

Eastwood, who was born in San Francisco, has deep ties to the area, serving as mayor of Carmel from 1986 to 1988.

He chose to run because the incumbent mayor was “too distant” from locals, and was so inattentive that she “used to knit during public meetings,” he told The Wall Street Journal in 2020.

(Clint Eastwood in High ‘Plains Drifter’.Getty Images)

(The kitchen. Photo: Sherman Chu)

(The home has mahogany doors and window trim. Photo: Sherman Chu)

(The current owner renovated the roughly 4,400-square-foot home. Photo: Sherman Chu)

(There is an interior courtyard with a firepit. Photo: Sherman Chu)

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