The owners of Healdsburg's Little Saint restaurant and music venue have put their sprawling Russian River estate on the market for $22 million. Jeff and Laurie Ubben listed the 52-acre Flax Estate and Vineyard at 6697 Westside Road this past week, offering a property that comes with a Pinot Noir vineyard, direct river access, and a guest list that has reportedly included touring musicians who played their downtown venue.
According to Sonoma Magazine, the property is a Healdsburg estate on Westside Road. The main house is a rectilinear, modern dwelling with flat roofs, white walls, and black steel-framed windows, and the grounds also include a tennis court.
A Ranch With Hollywood Roots
The ranch carries some old Hollywood lineage. MacMurray Ranch encompassed more than 1,500 acres and was purchased by golden-age actor Fred MacMurray and his wife, June Harver, in 1941 to raise prize-winning Aberdeen Angus cattle, according to The PinotFile. MacMurray nurtured the land for fifty years, and the family eventually sold it to E. & J. Gallo Winery in 1996.
From SHED to Little Saint
That project is Little Saint, which the Ubbens opened on Earth Day in 2022 inside a 10,000-square-foot building at 25 North Street in downtown Healdsburg. The couple purchased the building in 2020, two years after the beloved agrarian marketplace SHED had closed its doors, transforming the space into what it is today, according to Architectural Digest's coverage via Cultured Magazine. Little Saint originally operated under the culinary oversight of Vertice Hospitality, the management company run by SingleThread chefs Kyle and Katina Connaughton, before the Ubbens took over full operational control of the venue in January 2023 following what The Healdsburg Tribune described as an amicable separation after nearly three years of collaboration.
The thread connecting the estate and the restaurant runs through designer Ken Fulk, who serves as Little Saint's creative director. The Ubbens hired Fulk, an Architectural Digest AD100 designer known for maximalist interiors, to design the interiors of both the historic farmhouse and guesthouse at Flax Estate, as well as the brand's newly launched overnight guest cottages in town, according to 7x7 Bay Area.
Little Saint's Expanding Footprint
This year alone, the Ubbens have continued building out the Little Saint brand well beyond dining. In 2026 they launched The Cottages at Little Saint for overnight guests and introduced a community-supported agriculture farm stand supplied by their eight-acre Little Saint Farm, located less than a mile from the downtown venue, according to Patch's reporting. Little Saint's upstairs music venue, meanwhile, holds 280 guests. The venue has also hosted a solo set by Grammy winner St. Vincent, a performance Hoodline reported on earlier this month.
A High-End Listing Along Westside Road
At $22 million, Flax Estate is listed at a high price point for a Sonoma County residential property. Westside Road is widely regarded as one of Wine Country's premier estate corridors, and the Flax listing's price tag reinforces just how much the stretch commands from buyers chasing river frontage and vineyard acreage.
Whether the sale signals any broader pullback from the Ubbens' local real estate holdings remains unclear, though their downtown Healdsburg commercial footprint — Little Saint, its cottages, and the nearby farm — appears to remain fully intact.
