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vote grants landmark protections to the house on Dilling Avenue
that was used for exterior shots of the TV sitcom that ran from
1969 to 1974.
Interior scenes were shot on a soundstage, with sets that bore
no resemblance to the property that become a photo-op magnet for
“Brady Bunch” fans.
The show, which lived on for decades in syndication, featured
the comic travails of a family of six blended-family siblings —
“the youngest one in curls,” as the theme song explained.
The shingle-and-stone home with a peaked roof also appeared in
the 1995 big screen film “The Brady Bunch Movie” and its sequel.
The landmark status protects the home, built in 1959, from
demolition or major renovations — but doesn’t prohibit them. If
owners ever decide to make big changes, they would be subject to
a design review and the Cultural Heritage Commission can delay
the process to find preservation solutions.
The nonprofit LA Conservancy pushed for the landmark status and
CEO Adrian Scott Fine said he was thrilled it was approved. He
said fans of the show have a personal connection to the
property.
“If you watched the ‘Brady Bunch,’ you knew this house. People
make a pilgrimage to see it,” Fine said Wednesday. “To have it
designated like this, it makes it all the sweeter.”
When the house went on the market in 2018, the cable network
HGTV won a bidding war that drove the price up to $3.5 million —
or $1.6 million over the listing price for the
then-2,400-square-foot (223-square-meter) residence.
The house was expanded, remodeled and redecorated to give it
trademark elements of the set version, including the
wood-paneled living room with a floating staircase and an
orange-and-green kitchen.
The process was documented in a four-part HGTV miniseries called
“A Very Brady Renovation.”
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