Steve Jobs Demolishes Historic Home
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I studied architecture history extensively and have not heard of this architect. And looking at the photos, I don't see any architectural significances.
If it was Farnsworth house, it would have been a different story and in fact, it was. So ,the house was purchased by the local preservationists at a Sotheby's auction to keep it in its place instead of migrating it to a different location. If the local preservationists feel the Jackling house is a very important piece of history, why don't they buy it from Jobs and run a museum out of it.
Green and Green, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Eames, FLW, Mies, to name a few, those architects designed houses that defines very important architectural movements in America. But George Washington Smith? Never heard of him. I mean, he was a Spanish Colonial Revival architect. There's nothing original about that. He might have been a popular architect in his time but not what I call a history maker.