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The “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” author first purchased his coastal “Key-Sea Koast House” in 1976. It is listed on Zillow for $699,000.
The author Ken Kesey’s Yachats house, perched atop a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is for sale.
The ocean-view property, nicknamed the “Key-Sea Koast House,” is located directly off of the Oregon Coast Highway at 95080 U.S. Highway 101 S. in Yachats. The listing consists of the 1,269-square-foot building and the 2.13 acres of land it sits on. Its listed price on Zillow is $699,000, or $551 a square foot.
Kesey, a counterculture icon who grew up in Springfield and graduated from the University of Oregon, purchased the home as a coastal escape in 1976, more than a decade after the publication of his acclaimed 1962 novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and one year after its film adaptation starring Jack Nicholson.
The building consists of a main house with two bedrooms, and a stand-alone garage space that Kesey used as a studio and has now been converted into a “spacious bedroom,” per the Zillow listing.
“It’s really comfortable, not pretentious, just simple,” said Shanna McCord of Fathom Realty Oregon, the real estate agent working with the Kesey family on the sale. “The focus is really on the surroundings, rather than a big, flashy house.”
McCord said the house is attracting more interest than any property she’s ever helped sell before. The Zillow listing, which went up July 18, has close to 50,000 views.
A former webpage for the Key-Sea Koast House, captured using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, listed the property as recently as July 12 as a vacation rental boasting coastal charms for $150 per night or $840 per week.
The home is owned by a trust in the name of Faye Kesey, the author’s widow. McCord said Faye Kesey was at a point in her life where she wanted to make things simpler when it came to her obligations, prompting the sale.
“They’ve just taken such good care of it,” McCord said. “Coastal properties really take a beating, and if you aren’t up on maintenance, it just goes downhill fast. But you can just really tell how much love that they’ve put into it.”
