L.A. City Council declares the 'Brady Bunch' house a historic landmark

Here’s the story…of however a seemingly non-descript location successful the San Fernando Valley turned into an L.A. landmark.

The L.A. City Council voted to designate the “Brady Bunch” location arsenic a historic-cultural monument connected Wednesday, enshrining the Studio City Midcentury arsenic a portion of the city’s history.

“Long earlier it became a pop‑culture pilgrimage tract and backdrop for countless photograph ops, the Brady Bunch House helped signifier America’s imaginativeness of household beingness successful the precocious 1960s and aboriginal ’70s — particularly the thought of a blended family,” said Adrian Scott Fine, president of the L.A. Conservancy. “We’re thrilled to spot it present designated arsenic a Historic-Cultural Monument, ensuring the Brady Bunch — and their iconic location — stay portion of Los Angeles’ story.”

The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission unanimously voted to urge the house, located astatine 11222 Dilling St. successful Studio City, arsenic a landmark connected Jan. 15. The Planning and Land Use Commission approved the designation a period later, sending last accidental to the City Council.

“I look guardant to seeing this memorialized successful the due mode arsenic portion of San Fernando Valley tv history,” Councilmember Adin Nazarian said during the Planning meeting.

The landmark presumption protects the location from demolition, but doesn’t prohibit it. If the proprietor ever wants to destruct the home, the Cultural Heritage Commission tin hold the process for up to a twelvemonth to find preservation solutions. The committee besides gets much oversight connected projected alterations.

“The Brady Bunch” was filmed successful a workplace for the entirety of its iconic tally from 1969 to 1974. So however does a location that was simply for exterior shots upwind up arsenic a landmark?

Through painstaking renovations and a spot of world TV magic.

The location was built successful 1959 by designer Harry M. Londelius, who gave the modern ranch a shingle roof, cathedral ceilings and heaps of Palos Verdes stone. After starring successful the show, the location became a awesome for Southern California’s suburban, single-family charm.

For decades, it was owned by Violet and George McCallister, who bought it for $61,000 successful 1973. Once they died, their children sold it successful 2018 for $3.5 cardinal — astir doubly the archetypal ask.

The bloated merchantability terms was the effect of a bidding war, arsenic offers poured successful from TV enthusiasts and celebrities, including ‘N Sync’s Lance Bass. In the end, cablegram web HGTV emerged arsenic the winner.

The transmission had large plans for the property, announcing a $1.9-million remodel that would recreate the interiors precisely however they looked successful the show. The full process was documented successful a four-part miniseries titled “A Very Brady Renovation.”

The amusement featured the actors who played the Brady kids taking sledgehammers to the interiors portion “Property Brothers” stars Drew and Jonathan Scott reshaped the surviving spaces.

An wrong look astatine the “Brady Bunch” location successful Studio City.

(Ryan Lahiff for Eklund | Gomes)

The last effect was a adjacent picture-perfect replica of the Brady abode: the floating staircase, the groovy orangish room counters, adjacent the celebrated vase destroyed by a stray hoops during a celebrated episode. (“She ever says don’t play shot successful the house.”) To marque abstraction for the throwback bedrooms, the unit added 2,000 quadrate feet to the rear of the house, arsenic good arsenic a 2nd communicative — which they hid from the thoroughfare by lowering the instauration by a foot.

The renovation astir doubled the quadrate footage, featuring 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms crossed much than 5,000 quadrate feet.

After the miniseries, HGTV took a bath connected the sale. They flipped it for $3.2 cardinal successful 2023 — $300,000 little than they paid for it 5 years earlier and $2 cardinal little than the asking price.

The location was bought by historic-home enthusiast Tina Trahan and her hubby Chris Elbrecht, erstwhile main enforcement of HBO. It came with a fewer Brady-themed furnishings throw-ins specified arsenic a greenish floral sofa and credenza implicit with a 3-D printed equine sculpture.

Fans inactive flock to the location to instrumentality photos from the street, but Trahan and Elbrecht opened it to the nationalist for the archetypal clip successful November, offering a constricted tally of tours for $275.