'Brady Bunch' House Named Historical Landmark In LA

LOS ANGELES, CA — A Studio City house that was made famous as the home of the titular blended family in "The Brady Bunch" became an official city landmark on Wednesday.

The City Council voted 13-0 to approve a recommendation by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission to add the house to the city's list of historic-cultural monuments. The commission in January determine the proposal met the criteria for monument status under city law.

The house, located in a neighborhood adjacent to the Los Angeles River at 11222 W. Dilling St., was used in exterior establishing shots during the 1969-to-1974 run of "The Brady Bunch." Though interior scenes were filmed on a studio lot, the home's facade became one of television's most familiar suburban images.

Built in 1959 and designed by Harry Londelius Jr., the home was selected by the show's producers for its proximity to Paramount Studios in Hollywood, where the series was filmed, and for its distinctive mid-century design — the kind of house viewers could envision an architect like Mike Brady calling home.

The home hit the market in 2018 — for the first time in 50 years — when the property was the subject of a bidding war between NSYNC's Lance Bass and HGTV. The home-improvement network beat the former boy band star and bought the property for $3.5 million.

HGTV reunited the actors who played all six Brady kids for “A Very Brady Renovation," which chronicled HGTV's $1.9 million effort of turning the real home into an exact replica of the set. To do that, they had to add a whole second level, expanding the home by 2,000 square feet.

“Standout features in the completed home include the iconic floating staircase, the burnt orange-and-avocado green kitchen, the kids’ Jack-n-Jill bathroom and a backyard with a swing set, teeter totter and Tiger’s dog house,” HGTV said at the time.

After the renovation was completed, the home was listed for $5.5 million and sat on the market for months until it was sold in 2023 to Tina Trahan, a historic home enthusiast and the wife of former HBO chief executive Chris Albrecht.

Trahan told Patch last year she never sought out to buy the home, but was convinced after she had a chance to tour the house. She likened the intense emotional experience of stepping food into the home as getting into a time machine.

"I knew I had to have it. I was worried 'What if somebody buys it and destroys it?'" she said. "It's like eating life-sized Barbie-doll house — but a Barbie house you've been inside every day of your childhood."

Trahan opened the house to the public for the first time in November as part of a charity fundraiser dubbed "The Brady Experience." Donors had a chance to tour the property, with proceeds benefiting Wags and Walks Dog Rescue Adoption Center.

City News Service contributed to this report.