 I've got to be going. But her home in Los Angeles will remain standing. The city council has voted unanimously to designate the actress' 1929 four-bedroom Spanish colonial as a historic cultural monument. That prevents the current owners, a real estate heiress and her TV producer husband, from demolishing it. Monroe died in the home in 1962, six months after purchasing the property for $75,000. The current owners scooped it up for more than $8 million last year.