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The Yachats property, purchased in 1976 by the author as a coastal escape, was put on the market in July.
The Key-Sea Koast House, author Ken Kesey’s Yachats cottage located directly off of the Oregon Coast Highway, sold for $750,000 this week.
The sale closed on Tuesday, coming in at $591 per square foot. That’s a modest bump from the listing price; the house was first put up for sale in July for $699,000, or $551 per square foot.
The property, 95080 U.S. Highway 101 South in Yachats, includes both the 1,269-square-foot building and the 2.13 acres it sits on atop a bluff perched over the Pacific Ocean.
Kesey, the author and counterculture icon who grew up in Springfield and graduated from the University of Oregon, purchased the home in 1976, the year after the film adaptation of his novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was released.
The building itself has a main house with two bedrooms and a stand-alone garage, which Kesey used as a studio and that has since been converted into another bedroom.
Shanna McCord of Fathom Realty Oregon, the agent working with the Kesey family, said in a text that interest in the property was high at first but trickled down with time, though calls from interested parties continued just before closing day.
McCord previously told Lookout Eugene-Springfield that the home was owned by a trust in the name of the author’s widow, Faye Kesey, who wanted to simplify her obligations in her later years.
In the years since Kesey’s death in 2001, the home was used as a vacation rental, listed for $150 per night or $840 per week.
“They’ve just taken such good care of it,” McCord said in July. “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.”
