Steve Jobs’ Mystery Mansion Revealed
04 May 2009
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Ok nerds, this one’s for you. American technomessiah Steve Jobs has had some problems with the 17,250 sq ft mansion he bought in Palo Alto, California. In effort to spare you the boring real estate details, here’s the jist: Jobs wants to destroy the home to build Tony Stark’s house – or something much like it. Unfortunately for Jobs, local preservationists oppose the plan, arguing that the 1925 mansion represents one of the area’s few remaining examples of a Spanish Colonial Revival style and is therefore too historic to tear down. Legal hijinks ensue. But these photos taken by Jonathan Haeber tell a different story. The tale of the eccentric millionaire’s haunted mansion, perhaps? Haeber snuck into the property a few years ago and found an overgrown abode full of disintegrating drapes and corroded chandeliers. More photos after the jump and get the complete low-down at AppleInsider.
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Written by Jimmy Stamp in Architecture &
1 comments
26 July, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I think they should let him tear it down. There is nothing architecturally significant about the building. It is just a Spanish Colonial Revival. I think Jobs probably got taken when he bought the house. Jobs should be allowed to tear it down since there isn’t really anything exceptional about the building. You can get into fights where preservationists want to preserve everything. I mean get real it’s not a Frank Loyd Wright building.
Jobs should be allowed to build something more important on the sight.