The iconic childhood home of Jimi Hendrix looks set to be demolished after a last-minute bid to save the property failed.
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City officials told the dilapidated home's current owner, Pete Sikov, he had until Friday to demolish the eyesore, which stands at the entrance to his trailer park.
Owner Pete Sikov, who moved the two-bedroom home to Renton, Washington from Seattle in 2005, began dismantling it on Thursday after city officials rejected a bid to keep the house standing when film producer and Hendrix fan Michael Mycon offered to put up cash to turn the property into an office and information centre.
By Monday morning, the roof of the home was gone and city officials insist the entire property will be flattened by the end of the day. According to reports, Sikov signed an agreement allowing city bosses to fine him $5,000 (£3,570) if he did not bulldoze the property by Friday.
Sikov's trailer-home park, Hi-Land Mobile Manor, is just across the street from Hendrix's final resting place in Greenwood Memorial Park. The owner had planned to turn the small house into a Hendrix museum, but plans to do this and subsequent hopes of selling the dilapidated property he bought in 2001 fell through.
Sikov initially plans to store the Hendrix memorabilia he has dismantled.
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