The Goonies House

The Walsh house from The Goonies, Richard Donner's 1985 adventure film, written by Chris Columbus from a Steven Spielberg story. It is the home the Goon Docks kids set out to save from foreclosure.

Oregon's historic sites inventory files it as the Steffensen House, a Queen Anne built around 1896. The survey describes fishscale shingles, a hip roof, and a wraparound porch on wood brackets and spindlework.

City directories put a teamster at the Astoria Box Company here in 1896, then an Astoria Electric engineer from 1902 to 1910. A spruce mill watchman and his family lived here from 1925 to 1938.

The previous owner had wanted the house since her first visit to Astoria and bought it when it finally came up for sale. For years she let fans up into the attic, shoes off at the door.

The county tax roll now lists this parcel to Goonies House LLC, with a mailing address in a Kansas City suburb. Two neighboring lots are held by companies named for lines and characters in the film.

In August 2015 the previous owner draped the house in blue tarps and closed it for good, worn down by roughly 1,500 visitors a day. Signs went up asking people to keep off the private drive.

The current owner has filled the rooms with props, down to a replica of the pirate One-Eyed Willy in the living room. He asks fans to look from the street and not to drive up the driveway.

The Fratelli jailbreak was shot in the old Clatsop County Jail, now the Oregon Film Museum at 732 Duane Street. The museum has run the town's Goonies Weekend since 2010.