![]() The marriage formed by Dan Lukas and Anne Jarmain, owners of an investment fund, took it over in 2017 and sold it this August. It is unknown how the city will now find out its condition, since the house is still in private hands. But as the house was private property, and they could not access it, only see it from the outside, like so many other tourists who walk there every day, they did not reach a definite conclusion. Its technicians went to inspect the place and even issued a small public report where they talked about its possible inclusion in the HCM list. In 2013 there was already a first attempt to consider the villa, of Spanish or colonial style, as part of the historical heritage of the city, as confirmed to this newspaper by the Department of City Planning. The owner can request time extensions if needed”. The City Council then has 90 days to act on the nomination. From the time of the initiation, the Cultural Heritage Commission has 75 days to review the nomination and make a recommendation to the City Council. Keystone-France (Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)Īccording to the city, “now that the nomination has been initiated, Los Angeles City Planning Office of Historic Resources staff will prepare the nomination. The courtyard of Marilyn Monroe's Hollywood home, in a 1962 image. The nomination study comes first, but it may take up to six months for the city to make a decision on whether to consider (if it does, which everything indicates it will) the house as a Historic-Cultural Monument, and on how to protect it afterward. ![]() That is, the city prevents for now not only that the house be demolished, but also that any modification is done on the property, which in these 60 years since the death of the star has undergone certain changes, especially in the kitchen and bathrooms, and also when an annex building that was intended as a guest apartment was connected to the main residence. The decline of Hollywood’s golden age: Marilyn Monroe’s house slated for demolition The ordinance on Cultural Heritage is registered in an administrative code that indicates that the process is stopped, but not only to tear it down: It includes the suspension of the demolition and substantial modifications. Now it will be, and that prevents it from being touched. ![]() In that list there are more than 1,200 buildings scattered throughout 35 areas of the city, more than 50 of them in Brentwood, but the actress’s house was not on the list. This Friday morning, the City Council voted to initiate the procedures that will nominate Monroe’s house as a Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM), which would incorporate it into a list of protected properties. This has been made known by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning. But the news of this came out on Thursday and just 24 hours later it has been revealed that the demolition has been stopped.Īs EL PAÍS has confirmed, indeed, the house cannot be demolished right now. Its new owners applied for a demolition permit last August, which was a mere formality, that is, they were going to be able to tear it down. A villa that after her death passed from one hand to another until now, when it has been about to be destroyed. A small house, far from being called a mansion, of about 2,900 square foot (270 square meters) in the Brentwood hills, west of Los Angeles. The movie star married three times, lived with her three husbands, spent time at the famous Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard, but it wasn’t until she turned 35 that she bought her first and only home. At that address sits the only house that belonged to Marilyn Monroe. But 12305 Fifth Helena Drive will, after all, survive. Marilyn Monroe decided to call her house, the only one she ever owned, “Cursum Perficio”, which translates to “Here ends my journey.” And the journey of that home has very nearly come to an end.
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