“Remember the Jackling House, the 14-bedroom Roaring Twenties-era folly that Apple’s Steve Jobs bought, hated, and planned — despite the objections of preservationists — to replace with a modern home more to his exacting standards?” Philip Elmer-DeWitt asks for Fortune.
“Well, it got torn down in February 2011, while Jobs was dying and had more important things to do than build a new house,” P.E.D. reports. “It’s not clear what Laurene Powell, Jobs’ widow, plans to do with the property.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We hope Laurene Powell Jobs follows through with Steve’s oft-delayed vision for home on the property.
We also hope that the insufferable busybodies who failed to preserve jack shit, but did deny a dying man his wish, hate it and that it stands for at least a thousand years.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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