In 1984, Steve Jobs bought a 30-room, 17,250-sq-ft California mansion; after years of legal battles, it was demolished in 2011, while its pipe organ and historic fixtures were salvaged

For a house that once embodied California wealth and architectural ambition, the end came not with a grand renovation but with bulldozers. The Jackling House, a sprawling Spanish Colonial Revival mansion in the wealthy Silicon Valley town of Woodside, became t