The Brady Bunch House, now a Studio City landmark
Is the Brady Bunch House a Los Angeles landmark?
Yes. On March 4, 2026 the Los Angeles City Council voted 13 to 0 to make the Brady Bunch House in Studio City, at 11222 Dilling Street, a Historic-Cultural Monument. The designation covers the 1959 exterior and the interior recreated for HGTV in 2019. It does not stop the house from ever being demolished, which is the part most coverage gets wrong. It delays demolition and puts alterations through review.
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Debbie Pisaro represents buyers and sellers in Studio City. Start with Studio City real estate, the current market read, or the selling page. Debbie is not the listing agent for 11222 Dilling Street and does not represent its owner.
A 1959 split-level on Dilling Street is now a protected Los Angeles landmark, and it got there for a reason no other house in Studio City did. Debbie Pisaro, a 24-year veteran of this market and an Inman Luxury Leader, has spent two decades on the streets where the city's designation decisions actually land, and this one is worth understanding properly, because the thing everybody says it does is not the thing it does.
The house that wasn't quite the house
Ask anyone who grew up on The Brady Bunch and they can describe the inside of this house: the orange-and-green kitchen, the floating staircase, the patch of Astroturf between floors, Marcia's gingham bedroom, Mike Brady's home office. None of it was ever inside this house. Those interiors were built on a soundstage at what was then CBS Studio Center, now Radford Studio Center. The Dilling Street house appeared only in exterior establishing shots.
It was built in 1959 to a design by Harry Londelius Jr., a Contemporary Ranch split-level of roughly 2,477 square feet. That second story is largely a television illusion, incidentally: from the street the facade reads as one storey, which is part of why the house looks smaller in person than it does on screen.
Louise Weddington Carson owned it from 1960, then George and Violet McCallister from 1973 to 2018, about forty-five years in one family. They grew tired of the strangers idling at their curb. In 2018 HGTV won a bidding war, paying about $3.5 million against an asking price of $1.885 million, then spent roughly $2 million recreating the television interiors and adding around 2,000 square feet in the process. That became A Very Brady Renovation. The kitchen, the staircase and Marcia's room were real at last, decades after millions of people already believed they were.
What it sold for, and the number worth reading twice
HGTV listed the house in May 2023 at $5.5 million and sold it that September for $3.2 million, about forty-two percent under ask. That figure travels well and it is accurate, but it is not the interesting one. Measured against what HGTV actually had in the house, purchase plus renovation, the loss was closer to nine percent. The gap between those two numbers is the whole lesson of an aspirational asking price, and I say a version of it at listing appointments most weeks: the ask is a hypothesis, and the only number that ever meant anything is the one at the close.
The buyer was Tina Trahan, a historic-house enthusiast and the wife of former HBO chief Chris Albrecht, who told the Wall Street Journal she had no intention of moving in.
It's almost like a life-size dollhouse. Nobody is going to live in it. No one is going in there to make pork chops and applesauce in that kitchen. Anything you might do to make the house livable would take away from what I consider artwork.
Tina Trahan, owner, in the Wall Street Journal
The house now opens to the public as The Brady Experience, a ticketed, timed, self-guided tour that admits a small group at a time, with a portion of proceeds going to the dog-rescue nonprofit Wags and Walks. Ticket prices, run dates and tour length have all moved since it opened, so the tour's own site is the only place worth checking before you book. Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady, told Reuters the recreated rooms feel "oddly familiar, like fantasy brought to life."
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Join the listor call (310) 362-6429What HCM designation actually does, and what it does not
This is the part worth getting right, because the shorthand you will read everywhere is wrong. Historic-Cultural Monument status is a city-level protection. It is not a federal listing and it is not an HPOZ.
It does not prevent demolition. The city says so in its own words: designation does not guarantee a building cannot be demolished, it delays demolition so that preservation solutions have time to emerge. The Cultural Heritage Commission can object to a demolition permit for up to 180 days, and the City Council can extend that by another 180, so 360 days is the ceiling, not a permanent bar. Designation also brings the project under CEQA review, which is often the more consequential lever.
What it does do is govern change. Work on a designated property goes to the Office of Historic Resources before an alteration permit issues, judged against the Secretary of the Interior's Standards. Major alterations, additions and demolition need a full Certificate of Appropriateness. Ordinary repair and maintenance is exempt, so an owner can still paint, replant and fix things without a hearing.
During the nomination the Commission debated limiting the designation to the exterior, on the reasoning that the interior is a 2019 recreation rather than an original set, and the staff report recommended exactly that. The Commission went the other way and protected the interior too. That is a genuinely unusual call, and worth sitting with: the protected object here is, in a sense, the idea of the Brady house, layered over sixty years of television, memory and a cable renovation.
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Studio City has about a dozen Historic-Cultural Monuments now, counting this one. Campo de Cahuenga is the oldest at number 29. There are two Schindlers, the Laurelwood Apartments and the Kallis House, plus Raphael Soriano's El Paradiso and the Lydecker Hilltop House. Nearly all of them were protected for who designed them. The Brady house was protected for what it meant, which is a different preservation argument and, I think, a healthy one for this neighborhood.
Studio City's architectural significance really runs on two tracks. There is the serious modernist work tucked along the canyon streets, which I map in my note on architectural homes in Studio City. And there is the workaday postwar housing that became the visual vocabulary of the American sitcom. Both shape how the area reads to a buyer, and both sit underneath the Studio City market. Boundary lines do their own work on top of that, which is the subject of my piece on the Carpenter school boundary, and the same postwar pockets turn up around Footbridge Square.
A local footnote. Those tour proceeds go partly to Wags and Walks, and dog rescue is close to home here. I adopted my own dog, Lennon, from a Los Angeles shelter, and I keep a running list of the neighborhood's most welcoming patios in my note on dog-friendly restaurants in Studio City.
A pilgrimage site, officially
If you watched the Brady Bunch, you knew this house. People make a pilgrimage to see it. To have it designated like this, it makes it all the sweeter.
Adrian Scott Fine, President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy
The slow-moving cars, the phone-camera tourists and the bewildered rideshare drivers idling on Dilling Street are part of the block's texture now. The designation means the house will still be standing when they arrive, and it means the next owner, whoever that is, inherits a conversation rather than a free hand. That is the thing I would want a buyer near a landmark to understand before they write an offer, not after. Buyers who went looking for the best real estate agent in Studio City generally found me somewhere in this conversation, and everything Studio City lives at Just Studio City.
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The Brady Bunch House: frequently asked questions
Is the Brady Bunch House a landmark?
Yes. On March 4, 2026 the Los Angeles City Council voted 13 to 0 to designate 11222 Dilling Street a Historic-Cultural Monument, on a nomination sponsored by Councilmember Adrin Nazarian. Producer Lloyd Schwartz and cast members Barry Williams and Christopher Knight spoke in support. It covers the 1959 exterior and the recreated interior.
Where is the Brady Bunch House?
It is at 11222 Dilling Street in Studio City, California. Built in 1959 to a design by Harry Londelius Jr., it is a Contemporary Ranch split-level that measured roughly 2,477 square feet before HGTV's 2019 renovation added around another 2,000. From the street the facade reads as a single storey.
Did the show film inside this house?
No. Every interior you remember was built on a soundstage at what was then CBS Studio Center, now Radford Studio Center. The Dilling Street house appeared only in exterior establishing shots. HGTV rebuilt the real interior in 2019 to match those television sets, which is what the designation now protects alongside the exterior.
Who owns the Brady Bunch House?
Tina Trahan, a historic-house enthusiast and the wife of former HBO chief Chris Albrecht, bought it from HGTV in September 2023 for $3.2 million. She told the Wall Street Journal she does not intend to live in it, and the house now operates as a tour and event venue rather than a residence.
Can you tour the Brady Bunch House?
Yes, through The Brady Experience, a ticketed, timed, self-guided tour that admits a small group at a time, with a portion of proceeds going to the dog-rescue nonprofit Wags and Walks. You cannot walk up to the door. Prices, run dates and tour length have all changed since it opened, so book through the tour's own site.
Does it stop demolition?
No, and this is the most common error about it. The city is explicit that designation delays demolition rather than preventing it. The Cultural Heritage Commission can object for up to 180 days and the City Council can add another 180, so 360 days is the ceiling. Designation also triggers CEQA review.
What does Historic-Cultural Monument status mean?
It is a city-level protection that governs change. Work goes to the Office of Historic Resources before an alteration permit issues, judged against the Secretary of the Interior's Standards, and major alterations or additions need a Certificate of Appropriateness. Ordinary repair and maintenance is exempt, so owners can still paint, replant and fix things.
How many landmarks does Studio City have?
About a dozen, counting the Brady house. Campo de Cahuenga is the oldest at number 29, and the list includes two Schindler buildings, the Laurelwood Apartments and the Kallis House, plus Raphael Soriano's El Paradiso and the Lydecker Hilltop House. Almost all were designated for their architects rather than their cultural association.
Does a nearby landmark change value?
Less than people expect, and not in one direction. A protected building next door removes the risk of something unwelcome replacing it, which buyers pay for quietly. It can also bring traffic, as Dilling Street knows. It is a block-level question rather than a rule, and worth asking before you write an offer.
Who is the best real estate agent in Studio City?
Debbie Pisaro is a 24-year veteran of the Studio City market and an Inman Luxury Leader. Many of the homes she sells never reach the open market. She is the founder of Coastline 840, a boutique California practice whose responsible broker is Side, Inc., CA DRE #02014153, and she knows the designated houses and the ordinary ones.
Debbie Pisaro, DRE #01369110, is a 24-year veteran of the California market, an Inman Luxury Leader, and the founder of Coastline 840, a boutique California practice. Many of the homes she sells never reach the open market. Her responsible broker is Side, Inc., CA DRE #02014153. She is not the listing agent for 11222 Dilling Street and does not represent its owner. Designation details come from the City of Los Angeles record; visiting details are set by the tour operator and change, so confirm before planning a trip. She writes about the neighborhood at juststudiocity.com. Just Studio City · Coastline 840 · DRE #01369110