‘Brady Bunch’ home, utilized in exterior pictures for the favored sitcom, will get Los Angeles landmark standing
LOA ANGELES — Here is the story … of how a modest mid-century dwelling turned a Los Angeles landmark.
The Los Angeles Metropolis Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to designate the the so-called “Brady Bunch” home within the San Fernando Valley as a historic-cultural monument.
The vote grants landmark protections to the home on Dilling Avenue that was used for exterior pictures of the TV sitcom that ran from 1969 to 1974.
The Brady Bunch Home, the two-story single-family dwelling that served as the primary setting for the tv collection “The Brady Bunch” in Los Angeles, Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
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Inside scenes had been shot on a soundstage, with units that bore no resemblance to the property that change into a photo-op magnet for “Brady Bunch” followers.
The present, which lived on for many years in syndication, featured the comedian travails of a household of six blended-family siblings – “the youngest one in curls,” because the theme tune defined.
The shingle-and-stone dwelling with a peaked roof additionally appeared within the 1995 massive display movie “The Brady Bunch Film” and its sequel.
The landmark standing protects the house, inbuilt 1959, from demolition or main renovations – however does not prohibit them. If homeowners ever determine to make massive adjustments, they’d be topic to a design evaluation and the Cultural Heritage Fee can delay the method to search out preservation options.
The nonprofit L.A. Conservancy pushed for the landmark standing and CEO Adrian Scott Nice mentioned he was thrilled it was accredited. He mentioned followers of the present have a private connection to the property.
“When you watched the ‘Brady Bunch,’ you knew this home. Folks make a pilgrimage to see it,” Nice mentioned Wednesday. “To have it designated like this, it makes it all of the sweeter.”
When the home went in the marketplace in 2018, the cable community HGTV received a bidding struggle that drove the worth as much as $3.5 million – or $1.6 million over the itemizing worth for the then-2,400-square-foot (223-square-meter) residence.
The home was expanded, transformed and redecorated to provide it trademark components of the set model, together with the wood-paneled front room with a floating staircase and an orange-and-green kitchen.
The method was documented in a four-part HGTV miniseries referred to as “A Very Brady Renovation.”
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