Although many New York buildings avoid thirteenth floors, on that floor was the spacious New York Precuerra Department in which Monroe and Miller lived While he wrote the script of what would be his wife's last movie, The misfits (1961). The department, of 670 square meters, has three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, high roofs, a firewood fireplace and impressive views of the Queensboro bridge and the East River. It is currently on sale.
Connecticut colonial house
The couple also spent time on the farm of 1769, Miller property of the time of the War of Independence, located on a farm of 140 hectares in Roxbury (Connecticut). The couple thought about knocking down the four bedroom house that Miller bought in 1949 after writing Death of a travelerand replace it with a new design that Monroe had commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright. But Miller did not like the famous architect's plan and did not want to remodel her thoroughly. Miller lived there until his death in 2005, when he asked to return from his sister's department in New York while he was in palliative care. At his death, Miller donated 22 hectares to Roxbury Land Trust and, in 2015, his daughter Rebecca (with his third wife, Inge Moath) donated another 40 hectares.
Mediterranean style house in Los Angeles
When her marriage to Miller ended after five years, Monroe bought her first house, which she described as «A beautiful Mexican -style house with eight rooms«, a Spanish colonial revival of 1929 in the form of L with a roof of red tiles on a closed street, white stucco walls, two bedrooms (now has four), adobe walls and ceilings with wooden beams. Monroe's bedroom had a tile fireplacelike the room, with doors that gave a patio. He lived in this place, which he called his strength, only six months before his tragic death.
Therefore, it has been an iconic space for fans and detractors; However, it was about to be demolished. Given the situation, a petition was signed in which the government declared the house as a historic monument to preserve it and avoid its disappearance.
Article originally published in Ad us.
Translation and adaptation of Camila Colina.