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Actress Marilyn Monroe photograph session at Hollywood agent Johnny Hyde’s yard (708 w. Palm Drive) on Could 17, 1950 in Beverly Hills, California.
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The Los Angeles Metropolis Council unanimously voted on Wednesday to protect Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood dwelling, the place the star lived and died, as a Historic-Cultural Monument, saving it from demolition.
The vote ends a virtually year-long saga and energy to save lots of the house from destruction.
Final summer season, the town’s Division of Constructing and Security issued a demolition allow for the house.
Town council then unanimously authorised Councilwoman Traci Park’s emergency movement to dam demolition and start the method of designating the home as a historic constructing, CNN beforehand reported. Park represents the district the place the home is situated.
This week’s preservation vote was the ultimate step within the course of for designation, the town’s planning division instructed CNN.
Throughout a speech in entrance of the council earlier than the vote Wednesday, Park urged her colleagues to protect the LA landmark. She referred to the house, like Monroe, as “iconic.”
“There may be seemingly no lady in historical past or tradition who captures the creativeness of the general public the best way Marilyn Monroe did. Even all these years later, her story nonetheless resonates and evokes many people at this time,” she mentioned. “To lose this piece of historical past, the one dwelling Marilyn Monroe ever owned, could be a devastating blow for historic preservation, and for a metropolis the place lower than 3% of historic designations are related to ladies’s heritage.”
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An aerial view of the home the place actress Marilyn Monroe died is seen on July 26, 2002 in Brentwood, California.
Park mentioned that she didn’t take the matter frivolously and that she has been in communication with close by residents about their issues over visitors and security.
She launched one other movement Wednesday to judge tour bus restrictions on the road and surrounding areas, she mentioned.
“My group and I’ve labored intently with the property house owners to evaluate doubtlessly transferring the house to a spot the place the general public would possibly really be capable of go to and spend time,” she mentioned. “I stay hopeful and dedicated to work with the property house owners to see if this may be finished sooner or later, however at this time, let’s protect this important piece of LA’s historical past and tradition.”
The Los Angeles Conservancy, a nonprofit devoted to preserving historic locations within the metropolis, referred to as Wednesday’s vote a “success.”
“This designation is proof that neighborhood advocacy WORKS,” the group mentioned in an Instagram put up, thanking Park for her efforts.
The Brentwood bungalow was in-built 1929 and is valued at about $8 million, in keeping with property information. Monroe lived there for simply months earlier than she died in 1962 on the age of 36, Park mentioned. The popular culture icon died on the dwelling after overdosing on barbiturates.