Seattle Struggles Over How to Remember JIMI HENDRIX

February 10, 2005

Elaine Porterfield of Reuters reports: Family and friends of Jimi Hendrix are struggling with Seattle's government over the fate of a moldy, run-down house they see as a future museum and the city sees as an unsightly obstacle to development.

At stake is the fate of a modest home owned by Al Hendrix, the legendary rock guitarist's father, from 1953 to 1956 in Seattle's historically black Central District.

The James Marshall Hendrix Foundation moved the building a couple of blocks from its original location to a city-owned lot in 2001, after the land it had sat on was slated to be developed for housing.

But now the city says it is planning a new development and that the house must be moved again, by Feb. 22.

Ray Rae Goldman, who heads historical research and archives for the foundation, says Seattle had all but promised the house could remain on its current site so that it could be turned into a memorial and a community center.

"They've basically changed their mind," Goldman said. "The mayor (Greg Nickels) is going to go down as the mayor who destroyed Jimi Hendrix's house." Read more.

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