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{{Short description|Mansion in California, US}}
{{Infobox building
|name = Jackling House
|image = Jackling House, ca. 2007.jpg
|caption = c. 2007, with boards over its windows and doors
|status = Demolished
|architectural_style = [[Spanish Colonial Revival architecture|Spanish Colonial Revival]]
|location_city = [[Woodside, California]]
|location_country = [[United States]]
|coordinates = {{coord|37.416502|-122.258434|display=inline,title}}
|namesake = [[Daniel C. Jackling]]
|opened_date = 1925
|demolition_date = February 2011
|owner = [[Steve Jobs]] (1984–2011)
|grounds_area = {{convert|6|acres}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://fortune.com/2009/04/27/inside-steve-jobs-tear-down-mansion/ |first=Philip |last=Elmer-Dewitt |magazine=Fortune |date=April 27, 2009 |title=Inside Steve Jobs' tear-down mansion |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref>
|floor_count = 2
|other_dimensions = {{convert|17,250|sqft}}
|rooms = 30<ref>{{cite news |url=http://macdailynews.com/2006/02/27/steve_jobs_patiently_waits_to_tear_down_his_30_room_jackling_house/ |newspaper=Bloomberg |via=Mac Daily News |title=Steve Jobs patiently waits to tear down his 30-room Jackling House 'abomination' |date=February 27, 2006 |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref>
}}
The '''Jackling House''' was a mansion in [[Woodside, California]], designed and built for copper mining magnate [[Daniel Cowan Jackling]] and his family by noted California architect [[George Washington Smith (architect)|George Washington Smith]] in 1925.<ref name="San Jose Mercury News">{{cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14989045?nclick_check=1 |title=Preservationists appeal court ruling letting Apple CEO Steve Jobs demolish mansion |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |date=April 29, 2010 |access-date=May 1, 2010 |first=Jessica |last=Bernstein-Wax}}</ref>

Though it was considered a historic home, it was demolished in 2011 by its last owner, [[Steve Jobs]]. Its demolition followed a protracted court battle during which Jobs stated his intentions to build a smaller, contemporary-styled home on the site, though he died before any plans could be realized.<ref name="sfch11" />

==History==
The Jackling House designer, [[George Washington Smith (architect)|George Washington Smith]], was the foremost creator and proponent of the [[Spanish Colonial Revival architecture|Spanish Colonial Revival architectural]] style that became popular in the U.S. and remains so, especially in California and the Southwest. Based in [[Montecito, California|Montecito]], Smith helped create [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]]'s unified [[city planning]] and [[Architecture|architectural aesthetic]] and many significant residences in the area in the 1920s.<ref>[http://www.hispanic6.com/one_spanish_colonial_revival_architect_launched_a_california_style.htm Herold, Ann. ''One Spanish Colonial Revival Architect Launched California Style." The Los Angeles Times. February 2, 2006.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822160528/http://www.hispanic6.com/one_spanish_colonial_revival_architect_launched_a_california_style.htm |date=August 22, 2009 }}</ref>

Daniel Jackling was a [[copper mining]] baron, and the estate represented his aesthetic values, wealth, and family needs. It contained a built in residence [[pipe organ]], originally constructed by the [[Aeolian Company]] and later enlarged by [[George Kilgen and Sons]]. George Washington Smith integrated the {{convert|17000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} residence and landscaped gardens with a large traditional courtyard, open-air balconies, and many indoor-outdoor sightline and access connections. Details about the house and its contents when Jackling lived there, including the organ, are in his collected papers in the [[Stanford University Library]].<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8x0nb3mx Guide to the Daniel C. (Daniel Cowan) Jackling Papers, 1911–1956] Stanford University Library, Special Collections</ref>

After Jackling's wife Virginia died in 1957, the home was sold in 1958 and its surrounding land – nearly {{convert|194|acres}} – was subdivided. The house had three other owners before its last one bought the property, which had a list price of $3.5 million, in 1984.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2011/10/07/former-jackling-home-focus-of-exhibit |title=Former Jackling home focus of exhibit |newspaper=The Almanac |date=October 7, 2011 |first=Barbara |last=Wood |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref>

==Preservation issues==

===Background===
In 1984 [[Steve Jobs]] purchased the Jackling House and estate, and resided there for a decade. After that, he leased it out for several years until 2000 when he stopped maintaining the house, allowing exposure to the weather to degrade it. In 2004, Jobs received permission from the town of Woodside to demolish the house in order to build a smaller, contemporary styled one.<ref name=sfch11/>

Local preservationists created a new group, "Uphold Our Heritage" (UOH), dedicated to saving the historic residence. They sued the town and Jobs, claiming that both had ignored provisions of California law which prohibit cultural landmarks from being destroyed if there are reasonable, feasible ways to preserve them. They also contended that the initial environmental impact report did not demonstrate that preserving the house would cost more than replacing it. "In addition, the town failed to demonstrate that demolishing the mansion would provide an 'overriding benefit' to the public, as required by state law", the group's attorney Doug Carstens said.<ref name="San Jose Mercury News"/> "The issue before you is not to preserve and rehabilitate a work of marginal importance; it is to assure the protection and survival of a work of great significance", said the California Department of Parks and Recreation's State Historical Resources Commission chairperson Anthea Hartig, PhD.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.friendsofthejacklinghouse.org/ |website=Friends of the Jackling House |title=Introduction |access-date=May 1, 2010}}</ref>

===Interim decisions===
In January 2006, Superior Court Judge Marie Weiner agreed with "Uphold Our Heritage" and held that Jobs could not tear the house down. Jobs appealed to the State Court of Appeals, and in January 2007, that Court unanimously confirmed the lower court ruling. Jobs' attorney asked for an appeal but in April 2007, the [[Supreme Court of California]] refused to hear it.

In 2008, Jobs submitted a renewed permit application with updated estimates. The Woodside Town Council granted the permit a year later, in May 2009,<ref>{{cite news |last=Bernstein-Wax |first=Jessica |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |date=May 13, 2009 |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12357765?nclick_check=1&forced=true |title=Woodside council will allow Steve Jobs to demolish historic mansion |access-date=November 6, 2018 }}</ref> with the condition that Jobs must allow the house to be disassembled and moved elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web |last=Boyce |first=Dave |website=Palo Alto Online |date=June 24, 2009 |url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=12848 |title=Council reaches agreement on Jackling house |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref> In February 2010, Magalli and Jason Yoho offered to move the mansion to their five-acre lot in Woodside.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gullo |first=Karen |publisher=Bloomberg |date=February 23, 2010 |url=http://www.bloomberg.org/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=ajdTYwwVctKw |title=Offer to Move Jobs Mansion Made by Couple in His Town |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324220450/http://www.bloomberg.org/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=ajdTYwwVctKw |archive-date=March 24, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Boyce |first=Dave |newspaper=The Almanac |date=February 24, 2010 |url=http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=9245 |title=Another lifeline for Woodside house owned by Steve Jobs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927181225/http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=9245 |archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref> Magalli Yoho reported in March that the house resembled a Spanish Colonial Revival mansion she lived in as a child in Ica, Peru. She said, "This house is just a good house for our family."<ref name="San Jose Mercury News"/>

On March 8, 2010, Superior Court Judge Marie Weiner upheld the Woodside Town Council's 2009 decision that allowed Jobs to tear down his house. If an appeal was not filed before Jobs obtained a demolition permit, then demolition could proceed. The demolition permit process typically took "the better part of a couple of months", according to Woodside Town Manager Susan George.<ref name="Bernstein-Wax 2010-03-12">{{cite news|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14666287 |title=Judge upholds Woodside's decision to let Steve Jobs demolish mansion |last=Bernstein-Wax |first=Jessica |date=March 12, 2010 |work=[[San Jose Mercury News]] |access-date=March 18, 2010}}</ref>

On April 29, 2010, "Uphold Our Heritage" appealed the March court decision. The appeal put an "automatic stay" on the issuance of demolition permits.<ref name="Bernstein-Wax 2010-03-12"/> The group hoped that the house could be relocated and restored.<ref name="Bernstein-Wax 2010-03-12"/>

==Demolition and legacy==
Later in 2010, Judge Weiner upheld the council's decision to allow the house to be demolished.

The pipe organ was removed in January 2011,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.residenceorgan.com/Jackling/Jackling%20removal.html |title=Salvaging the Jackling Residence Pipe Organ |publisher=Friends of the Jackling Organ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106132618/http://www.residenceorgan.com/Jackling/Jackling%20removal.html |archive-date=November 6, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/19/steve-jobs-and-the-strange-afterlife-of-the-historic-woodside-mansion-he-demolished-2/ |title=Steve Jobs and the strange afterlife of the historic Woodside mansion he demolished |newspaper=VentureBeat |date=March 19, 2016 |first=Chris |last=O'Brien |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref> and the entire residence was demolished the next month.<ref name=sfch11>{{cite news| url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Steve-Jobs-historic-Woodside-mansion-is-torn-down-2474921.php | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | first=Henry K. | last=Lee | title=Steve Jobs' historic Woodside mansion is torn down | date=February 15, 2011 |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref> Nothing was built on the site, and Jobs died later that year on October 5, 2011, of [[pancreatic cancer]]. [[Laurene Powell Jobs]] proposed a new building for the site in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Steve Jobs' widow is finally building the family's Silicon Valley dream home |newspaper=VentureBeat |url=https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/18/steve-jobs-widow-is-finally-building-the-familys-silicon-valley-agricultural-wonderland-dream-home/ |first1=Chris |last1=O'Brien |date=March 18, 2016 |first2=Joran |last2=Novet |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref>

The Woodside History Museum has an exhibit of furniture, maps, photographs, etc. from the Jackling House.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/steve-jobs-house-dem/ |title=Photos: The Historic House Steve Jobs Demolished |magazine=Wired |date=February 17, 2011 |last=Diaz |first=Jesus |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref>

The town of Woodside collected 150 items from the home before it was destroyed. As of October 2018, the items were reportedly appraised at over $30,000. At a meeting that month, the town council approved a plan to offer the items – including a silver-plated teaspoon, a chandelier, wall sconces, door handles, a flagpole, and a 1920s thermostat and toilet – in sequence to the town first, and then to the owners of another Smith-designed home next door. After that, the items would be offered to the museum of the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], which has additional Smith designs nearby. Remaining items would then be made available to the public via [[silent auction]] before being "sent to salvage".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/woodside-may-sell-toilet-sink-other-items-steve-jobs-home-2018-10 |title=Steve Jobs fanatics may be able to buy a toilet, thermostat and other random household objects that were part of the Apple founder's old Silicon Valley mansion |date=October 20, 2018 |first=Greg |last=Sandoval |newspaper=Business Insider |access-date=October 20, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2018/10/29/woodside-council-approves-plan-for-jackling-house-artifacts |title=Woodside: Council approves plan for Jackling house artifacts |date=October 29, 2018 |first=Dave |last=Boyce |newspaper=The Almanac |access-date=November 4, 2018 }}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.friendsofthejacklinghouse.org/ Friends of the Jackling House]
*[http://www.friendsofthejacklinghouse.org/gallery.html Historic Jackling House Photos]
*[http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/the-jackling-house-showdown Jackling House: Interior photos (circa 2007)]
* {{cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/tunnelbug/albums/72157594153520402 |title=Abandoned Jackling House Mansion |date=2 June 2006 |author=Haeber, Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Haeber|website=flickr |access-date=27 June 2016}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/edsel12/albums/72157623402856887 |title=Fruit, Scouts, Old Ppl |date=26 February 2010 |author=edsel12 |website=flickr |access-date=27 June 2016}}

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