The former Los Angeles home of Marilyn Monroe has been named a historic cultural monument, saving it from destruction by its current owners.

The L.A. City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the designation, in opposition to the owners, who live next door and want to expand their estate by knocking it down.

Monroe lived in the Spanish Colonial-style home in the city’s upscale Brentwood neighborhood for just six months before she died there of an apparent overdose.

It was the first home she had bought on her own, without a husband, the L.A. Times noted.

“There’s no other person or place in the city of Los Angeles as iconic as Marilyn Monroe and her Brentwood home,” said council member Traci Park before the vote commenced, according to the Times. Her jurisdiction includes the house.

The fight to preserve the house began last summer when reality TV producer Roy Bank and his wife, heiress Brinah Milstein, bought the property for $8.35 million and revealed their demolition plans.

Milstein tried to convince the Cultural Heritage Commission in January that the property was not serving a historical purpose. She and Banks also sued the city.

“We have watched it go unmaintained and unkept,” she said, according to the Times. “We purchased the property because it is within feet of ours. And it is not a historic cultural monument.”

Monroe fans and history buffs were ebullient at the decision, with the Los Angeles Conservancy exulting that the designation would provide “much-needed protections for Marilyn Monroe’s final home.”

The Brentwood property wouldn’t be the first Monroe home to meet its end. In 2015, a San Fernando Valley home she lived in when she was 16 and known as Norma Jean was razed in a gut punch to fans.