by Late last month we reported that the home where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computers looked as though it was well on its way to becoming a historical landmark, and today the San Jose Mercury News reports (via MacRumors) that the plan has morphed into reality. Specially, Jobs’ one-time home was labeled a “historic resource” by the Los Altos Historical Commission.
That means that Patricia Jobs, Steve’s sister and the current owner of the site at 2600 Crist Drive in Los Altos, California, now needs to go through a series of reviews before any alterations are allowed to be made.
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The designation marks the end of a two-year effort on the part of the commission, which conducted extensive research on the one-story ranch-style home over that time. According to Frank Bishop, chairman of the commission, “The documentation looks very complete — better than some of the books as far as accuracy goes.”
Jobs and Wozniak built the first 100 Mac computers on the site in 1976, and the existing models from that period occasionally sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The site was recently used as a filming location for Ashton Kutcher’s widely panned biopic, Jobs.
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