With Demolition, Apple Chief Makes Way for House 2.0
WOODSIDE, Calif. — There may not be an app for it, but Steve Jobs did have a permit. And with that, his epic battle to tear down his own house is finally over.
Woodside History Committee
The demolition process began Monday on the so-called Jackling House in Woodside, Calif.
For the better part of the last decade, Mr. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, has been trying to demolish a sprawling, Spanish-style mansion he owns here in Woodside, a tony and techie enclave some 30 miles south of San Francisco, in hopes of building a new, smaller home on the lot. His efforts, however, had been delayed by legal challenges and cries for preservation of the so-called Jackling House, which was built in the 1920s for another successful industrialist: Daniel Jackling, whose money was in copper, not silicon.
Opponents of Mr. Jobs’s plan had hoped to rescue, or perhaps even move, the manse. But on Monday, Mr. Jobs — who bought the house in the 1980s, but moved out a decade ago — opted to delete instead.
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