Our Story
A place with soul. A family with heart. An experience designed around you.
The best experiences are not rushed.
Built by a Legend
In the 1990s, Ken Kragen — the music manager who guided the careers of Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie, and orchestrated “We Are the World” — went searching for a place to escape. He found 751 acres of rolling hills in Paso Robles wine country and built a retreat worthy of the life he’d lived.
The Oak Villa was designed with his architect, Woody Woodruff, as a gathering place — a home where friends could stay for weeks, where astronomers from Berkeley would come to stargaze through the fourth-floor observatory, and where the biggest names in music felt completely at ease.
Dolly Parton was a regular. She and Kenny would hike to the Lookout Point at sunset, sit on the ridge, and sing — just the two of them, their voices drifting across the valley. No audience. No cameras. Just the hills and the music.
That’s the spirit we inherited when we took over this land. Not a venue. A place where people come together and something memorable happens.
You can sit on the back patio and look out for 25 miles.
Ken Kragen
Restored With a Purpose
When we found the estate, it had fallen into disrepair. But we saw what it could become — and we saw ourselves in it. A place to gather the way our family matriarch fondly remembered from her childhood summers in Paso Robles.
We restored the infinity pool, revived the olive orchard that now produces California extra virgin olive oil, and transformed the property into one of central California’s most versatile private estates for wine country weddings and gatherings of all kinds.
Today, our family cares for this land — and we’re raising the next generation to love it too.
What we stand for
this place
means something to us.
We only share it
with people who feel the same.
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