“The California Supreme Court does not want to hear about Steve Jobs’ quest to tear down a historic Woodside mansion. On April 25, the state’s high court turned down Jobs’ petition to hear his case,” Andrea Gemmet reports for Palo Alto Online.
“Jobs, the CEO of Apple Inc., has been waging a losing battle against a group of preservationists over the fate of the Jackling house, a massive Spanish Colonial revival-style mansion built in 1926,” Gemmet reports.
“He said he plans to tear it down and build a new family home on the Mountain Home Road site, but has been thwarted by an ad-hoc preservation group called Uphold Our Heritage that filed suit to block the demolition,” Gemmet reports. “Jobs was granted a demolition permit by the town of Woodside in December 2004.”
Gemmet reports, “Jobs has said that he plans to build a much smaller family home on the site, and referred to the Jackling house, where he lived for 10 years, as an architectural ‘abomination.’ In recent years, the Jackling house has been uninhabited and allowed to fall into disrepair.”
“The demolition permit for the Jackling house came with an unusual condition — that Mr. Jobs offer to give away the mansion to someone who would relocate it and restore it. A handful of prospective takers have come forward, but the relocation plans have been on hold while the case made its way through the courts,” Gemmet reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bizarro Ballmer” for the heads up.]
Information about the Jackling house via the Uphold Our Heritage Web site: http://www.friendsofthejacklinghouse.org
you win some, you loose some
If the State or a private interest group wants to preserve the home, they should buy it themselves. It’s always very easy to be idealistic when someone else is paying the price for that idealism.
Termites. That is what you need… good old termites.
Just buy a bunch of chairs, invite Ballmer over for dinner and share future plans. Ballmer will toss the chairs around and likely tear the place down.
just burn the bloody thing down. simple. woops i dropped a match on some petrol rags that were lying around, sorry about that.
“Got a match?”
“Yeah, yer butt and my face….er, wait..”
How about he restores it and turns it into a revenue-producing Museum of Inovation that includes every Apple product ever released, and finds himself a secluded place free of the publicity and traffic this location already has
Spanish Revivalism. What a joke. How is Spanish Revivalism our heritage? We are not Spanish. So why should our homes look Spanish. I’ll bet the architect nor the owner were Spanish.
It’s an abomination. What integrity does a house designed in a fake Spanish style in the US have? It’s just a big house built by a really wealthy man in a really wealthy neighborhood.
This is what heritage means for Americans.
Better yet assasinate the people responsible for holding this up.I can totally picture the people that want to keep the house around. Theyre the kind of people that do nothing more than sit around and discuss world politics, interspersed with cognac and moaning about the state of their dafodils.
Its just an ego trip for these idiots, stopping someone like Jobs from doing what he likes with his own property.
G.W.
I think many of us would like for you to expand on that delightful insight.
There is a depth of knowledge, I am sure, that we lack, and are beholden upon you to enlighten us.
It’s theft by do-gooder.
@ Jeff: “you win some, you loose some.” Actually, you win some, and you LOSE some.
@ George W Bullshit: The term “heritage” to you third-worlders refers to the flies that have been laying eggs in your children’s eyes for so long you’ve given them NAMES! (The insects, not your kids.)
What jackasses these people are.
Typical California bulls_hit, such as in California there’s now a difference between sex (male and female) and gender (male and female).
If I see “butch” in the men’s room, I’m throwing her (it) out.
like, 1926? That’s not even a hundred years old. What a bunch of schmucks
Next time i’m around the neighborhood i’m gonna help jobs out with a little vandalism
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Hey Steve…. call my buddy Vittorio and make him a deal he just can’t refuse….he’ll set things straight.
Look in most states, to remodel you only need one outside wall.
Pick one (smallest one)! Trash the rest. Check into your local government on remodeling.
“you win some, you loose some”
Please note that the word is “lose,” not “loose.” “Loose” is like someone’s screw is “loose,” like Ballmer. It drives me nuts to see so many people misspell the word. Pet peeve, sorry. More on topic, I thought the sale and moving of the historic house was a done deal?
Funny thing is that if this had been Gates I would have laughed since I wish Mr. Gates all the worst.
The entire motive behind this so-called “preservationist” group is that they want to stick it to the rich guy. They know they’ll never achieve anything remotely resembling SJ’s effect on the world, so out of petty jealousy, they decide to interfere with his right to dispose of his property as he sees fit.
Woodside’s a nice looking neighborhood, but if I get rich enough to buy a $10M house, I’ll go somewhere where the neighbors have something better to do than act out their envy.
-jcr
A nation without a history is a nation without a past.
You need to look back at your foundation in order to determine if it can support your future development.
John, “sex” is a verb, “gender” is a noun.
Crabapple,
a house built in 1927 is not “history” its just a house, and the style “spanish revival” as someone already expressed is a fake style by an architect copying someone else’s style.
There’s nothing inherently tying this style of design or the house to that particular location, Jobs already offered to relocate the structure.
This is just an ego trip by a bunch of so-called “do gooders” who want to mess with other people’s lives and property at no expense of their own. They will happily take away his rights to do what he wants to with his house because it costs them nothing.