On September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix went to the basement apartment of his girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, at this location (apartment #22).

Hendrix had taken 9 of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping pills to help him sleep. This particular brand of Belgian sleeping pill was a much stronger presciption then he was used to, and the mix of red wine and sleeping pills cause him to asphyxiate on his own vomit. He was 27 years old.

There are a number of the prerequisite conspiracy theories surrounding Hendrix's death, but those are the established facts.

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Originally located in the Central District, Al Hendrix bought a home at this location in 1950 with a $10 down payment.

Jimi Hendrix lived at this address from the ages of 10 to 13, when he first discovered music. Leon Hendrix (Jimi's younger brother by five years) remembers Jimi playing the Peter Gunn theme on a ukulele "because you could play it using only one string."

The home was originally moved to the Hi-Land Mobile Manor, a trailer park opposite to the Jimi Hendrix memorial at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, but the house was torn down in 2009 because financing couldn't be secured. The contents of the home (wood, bathtub, doors, etc.) have been put into storage for safe-keeping. Pictures of the pre-disassembled home can be seen here.

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Johnny Allen Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942 at King County Hospital of Seattle (now called Harborview Medical Center).

Born to James Allen "Al" Hendrix and Lucille Jeter, the elder Hendrix changed his son's name to James Marshall Hendrix when he was three years old to honor his late brother.

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Located in the Greenwood Memorial Park of Renton, WA (a suburb SE of Seattle) is the Jimi Hendrix Memorial.

Semi-completed in 2002, it's the final resting place of Jimi, as well as some members of his family (the family memorial contains some 54 plots). The memorial is also decorated with pictures of Hendrix, lyrics, his signature engraved in a stone, and the head stone of his previous grave.

The centerpiece of the memorial is a covered structure held up by three columns that is supposed to house a bronze statue of Jimi in the future. The project has been held up since the main proponent, Jimi's father Al Hendrix, died in 2002.

The memorial is free and open to the public.

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