QUICK TAKES - April 1, 2009

The childhood home where rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix is said to have first discovered music has been dismantled after eight years of preservation efforts failed.

Barely a shell of the 900-square-foot house originally in Seattle’s Central Area neighborhood remains on a lot across the street from where Hendrix was buried in Renton, Wash.

The demolition of the home, where Hendrix lived from ages 10 to 13, is the end of Pete Sikov’s fight to preserve it, beginning in 2001 when the original site was purchased for condominium development. But the real estate investor said that parts have been saved and may be sold later.

“Can you imagine a guitar made out of wood from Jimi’s house? Who wouldn’t want that?” he asked.