JIMI HENDRIX's Former Home Won't Be Demolished

June 10, 2005

The Associated Press has issued the following report:

The city [of Seattle] reached an agreement Friday with the owner of a dilapidated home where Jimi Hendrix once lived, meaning that the structure won't be demolished as long as it's moved to suburban Renton by Aug. 4.

"We're just waiting on some permits from the city of Renton, but everything seems to be on track," said city spokeswoman Katherine Schubert-Knapp.

After he missed several deadlines for moving the home off city property, the mayor's office gave owner Pete Sikov an ultimatum: Prove you're going to move it by Friday noon, or we're tearing it down.

Sikov came through, Schubert-Knapp said. The house is to be moved to a plot across the street from Greenwood Memorial Park, where the guitar legend is buried.

The James Marshall Hendrix Foundation wants to turn the home into a music-oriented youth center. Hendrix's father, Al Hendrix, owned it from 1953 to 1956.

Hendrix was born in Seattle in 1942 and went on to become one of the world's most influential guitarists, with songs such as "Purple Haze" and "Hey Joe". He died of a sleeping-pill overdose in 1970 in London.

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