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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 avoid wasting the house from destruction.
Last summer, the town’s Division of Constructing and Security issued a demolition allow for the house.
Town council then unanimously permitted 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 doubtless no girl in historical past or tradition who captures the creativeness of the general public the way in which Marilyn Monroe did. Even all these years later, her story nonetheless resonates and evokes many people as we speak,” 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.”
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 crew and I’ve labored intently with the property homeowners to evaluate doubtlessly shifting the house to a spot the place the general public would possibly truly be capable of go to and spend time,” she mentioned. “I stay hopeful and dedicated to work with the property homeowners to see if this may be performed sooner or later, however as we speak, 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, known as Wednesday’s vote a “success.”
“This designation is proof that group advocacy WORKS,” the group mentioned in an Instagram post, thanking Park for her efforts.
The Brentwood bungalow was inbuilt 1929 and is valued at about $8 million, in accordance 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.