Iconic Brady Bunch House Officially Named Historic Landmark

The iconic Brady Bunch house successful Los Angeles has officially been granted landmark status.

The LA City Council unanimously voted connected Wednesday to designate nan San Fernando Valley residence arsenic a historic-cultural monument.

This determination provides landmark protections to nan Dilling Avenue property, instantly recognizable arsenic nan exterior mounting for nan beloved 1969-1974 TV sitcom.

While nan home's destruction became a celebrated photograph opportunity for fans, it is important to statement that each interior scenes were filmed connected a soundstage, featuring sets that bore nary resemblance to nan existent house

The show, which lived connected for decades successful syndication, featured nan comic travails of a family of six blended-family siblings — “the youngest 1 successful curls,” arsenic nan taxable opus explained.

The shingle-and-stone location pinch a peaked tile besides appeared successful nan 1995 big-screen movie The Brady Bunch Movie and its sequel.

The landmark position protects nan home, built successful 1959, from demolition aliases awesome renovations — but doesn’t prohibit them. If owners ever determine to make large changes, they would beryllium taxable to a creation reappraisal and nan Cultural Heritage Commission tin hold nan process to find preservation solutions.

The nonprofit LA Conservancy pushed for nan landmark position and CEO Adrian Scott Fine said he was thrilled it was approved. He said fans of nan show person a individual relationship to nan property.

“If you watched nan ‘Brady Bunch,’ you knew this house. People make a visit to spot it,” Fine said Wednesday. “To person it designated for illustration this, it makes it each nan sweeter.”

When nan location went connected nan marketplace successful 2018, nan cablegram web HGTV won a bidding warfare that drove nan value up to $3.5 cardinal — aliases $1.6 cardinal complete nan listing value for nan then-2,400-square-foot (223-square-meter) residence.

The location was expanded, remodeled and redecorated to springiness it trademark elements of nan group version, including nan wood-paneled surviving room pinch a floating staircase and an orange-and-green kitchen.

The process was documented successful a four-part HGTV miniseries called “A Very Brady Renovation.”