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Hendrix home demolished
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 1 April 2009
Jimi Hendrix’s Seattle childhood home has been demolished, despite the fact that owner Pete Sikov has been trying to save it for eight years.
The property developer purchased the building in 2001 for $30,000 and moved it to a city-owned site where he and the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation hoped to renovate it as a music centre. When that plan failed, Sikov bought, at a cost of $1.8m, a trailer park close to the cemetery in Renton where Hendrix is buried, and moved the house there.
Despite negotiations with officials in the city, which is thirteen miles south of Seattle, they have finally demanded that the house be torn down. Neil Watts, Renton Director Of Development Services is quoted as saying: “It’s an eyesore. We had this fairly ugly structure on a major arterial”.
Sikov has said that parts of the house have been saved, including kitchen cabinets, a claw foot bath and the building’s back door. “Can you imagine a guitar made out of wood from Jimi’s house? Who wouldn’t want that?” he added.
