The Brady Bunch House, Now an LA Landmark, Is Also an Immersive Experience!

Yes. On March 4, 2026, the Los Angeles City Council voted 13-0 to designate the Brady Bunch House at 11222 Dilling Street in Studio City as a Historic-Cultural Monument. The protection covers both the 1959 exterior and the recreated interior built during HGTV's 2019 A Very Brady Renovation, and it prevents demolition while triggering design review for major exterior alterations.

On the morning of March 4, the Los Angeles City Council took up Item 14 on a long agenda and voted 13-0 to make a quiet stretch of Dilling Street a little more permanent.

The Brady Bunch House, that two-story, split-level, shingle-and-stone home at 11222 Dilling, the one with the gabled roof and the front lawn you've absolutely posed in front of at least once, is now an official Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

Councilmember Adrin Nazarian, who represents Council District 2, sponsored the designation. Brady co-producer Lloyd Schwartz showed up to City Hall to speak in support. So did Barry Williams, who played Greg, and Christopher Knight, who played Peter.

The LA Conservancy the nonprofit that has spent decades fighting to keep the city's architectural memory intact, had pushed for the landmarking since last fall.

It was the kind of vote that happens fast and means a lot.

The house that wasn't (quite) the house

If you grew up watching The Brady Bunch, or if you grew up watching reruns of The Brady Bunch, which is statistically more likely, you have a very specific memory of that home. The orange-and-green kitchen. The floating staircase. Astroturf instead of grass between the floors. Marcia's bedroom with the gingham bedspreads. Mike Brady's groovy office.

None of that was ever inside this house.

The interiors were a soundstage at what was then CBS Studio Center (now Redford Studio Center, just up the road on Radford). The Dilling Street home, built in 1959 and modest by today's Studio City standards at around 2,477 square feet, was used purely for exterior establishing shots.

The family who lived there, the Clarks, owned it for nearly fifty years and reportedly got tired of strangers asking to peek inside.

In 2018, after the Clarks sold, HGTV won a bidding war that drove the price to $3.5 million, about $1.6 million over asking, and spent another reported $2 million renovating the interior to match what TV audiences had imagined was inside all along. That renovation became a miniseries called A Very Brady Renovation.

The orange-and-green kitchen is now real. So is the floating staircase. So is Marcia's room.

In 2023, HGTV listed the property at $5.5 million. It sold for $3.2 million, roughly 42 percent under ask, to Tina Trahan, a historic-house enthusiast and the wife of former HBO chief Chris Albrecht. Trahan told the Wall Street Journal she had no intention of moving in.

"Nobody is going to live in it. 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

She has been good to her word. The house has functioned as an event space for charity work, and this spring it became something more permanent. As Reuters reported on April 29, 2026, the property is now open as an ongoing immersive experience called The Brady Experience.

Visitors can walk up the floating staircase, sit on the furniture, open the fridge, and photograph the bold 1970s interior in person. Christopher Knight, who played Peter on the original show, told Reuters the recreated rooms feel "oddly familiar, like fantasy brought to life."

What HCM designation actually means

This is the part most coverage skips, and it's worth understanding if you live in Studio City, because we have more than a dozen of these designations already, and you've probably driven past several this week without knowing it.

A Historic-Cultural Monument designation is a city-level landmark protection. It's not the same as a federal historic register listing, and it's not as strict as living inside an HPOZ (Historic Preservation Overlay Zone). What it does, specifically:

It protects the home from demolition. It triggers a design review for any major exterior alterations. It empowers the Cultural Heritage Commission to delay significant changes for up to a year while preservation alternatives are explored.

What it does not do: freeze the house in amber. Owners can still renovate, repaint, replant, and live their lives. They just can't tear it down, and they can't substantially alter its character-defining features without a conversation.

The Cultural Heritage Commission initially debated whether to limit the Brady designation to only the exterior, given that the interiors are themselves a recreation, but ultimately concluded the recreated interiors warranted protection too.

That's a notable choice. It says the cultural object being protected isn't just the original 1959 architecture; it's the idea of the Brady house, layered on over decades.

Why it matters to Studio City

The Brady house joins an interesting roster. Studio City already has more than a dozen Historic-Cultural Monuments quietly scattered through its hills and flats, including a Gregory Ain residence, several USC Case Study homes on Laurelcrest, and the De Long / Wright Hackett House. Many more are mapped on our architectural homes map.

Most of those are protected because of who designed them. The Brady house is protected because of what it meant, to a generation of viewers, to the city's identity as the place where television actually got made, to anyone who has ever pointed it out from the passenger seat of a car driving down Dilling.

That's a different kind of preservation argument, and a healthy one for our neighborhood to make. Studio City's architectural significance has always been twofold: the serious modernist work on the canyon streets, and the workaday postwar housing that became the visual vocabulary of the suburban American sitcom.

Both deserve protection. Both are now getting it.

A pilgrimage site, officially

Adrian Scott Fine, the LA Conservancy's CEO, said it well after the vote.

"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, CEO, LA Conservancy

If you live nearby, you've seen the pilgrims. The slow-moving cars. The phone-camera tourists on the sidewalk. The occasional bewildered Uber driver. They are part of the texture of this neighborhood now, and they're going to keep coming. The designation just means the house will still be standing when they get here.

Welcome to the list, 11222 Dilling. You've earned it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Brady Bunch House a Los Angeles landmark? Yes. On March 4, 2026, the Los Angeles City Council voted 13-0 to designate the Brady Bunch House at 11222 Dilling Street in Studio City as a Historic-Cultural Monument. Councilmember Adrin Nazarian sponsored the designation, and Brady co-producer Lloyd Schwartz, Barry Williams, and Christopher Knight spoke in support.

Where is the Brady Bunch House located? The Brady Bunch House is at 11222 Dilling Street in Studio City, California. The home is a two-story split-level built in 1959 and is roughly 2,477 square feet.

Did The Brady Bunch film inside this house? No. The interiors that fans remember (the orange-and-green kitchen, the floating staircase, Marcia's bedroom) were a soundstage at what was then CBS Studio Center, now Redford Studio Center on Radford. The Dilling Street home was used only for exterior establishing shots. HGTV later renovated the real interior in 2019 to match the soundstage version.

Who owns the Brady Bunch House? Tina Trahan, a historic-house enthusiast and the wife of former HBO chief Chris Albrecht, bought the home in 2023 for $3.2 million. She has stated she does not intend to live in it. As of April 2026, the property is open to the public as an ongoing immersive experience called The Brady Experience.

Can you visit the Brady Bunch House? Yes. As of April 2026, the Brady Bunch House at 11222 Dilling Street in Studio City is open to the public as an ongoing immersive experience called The Brady Experience. Visitors can walk up the floating staircase, sit on the furniture, open the fridge, and photograph the recreated 1970s interior in person.

What does Historic-Cultural Monument status mean? A Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument designation protects a property from demolition, triggers a design review for major exterior alterations, and allows the Cultural Heritage Commission to delay significant changes for up to a year while preservation alternatives are explored. Owners can still renovate, repaint, and live their lives. They cannot tear the property down or substantially alter its character-defining features without a conversation.

Just Studio City is published by Debbie Pisaro, a Studio City resident and California real estate broker. For more on the neighborhood's architecturally significant homes, explore the world of Studio City architectural homes. DRE #01369110

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