The ‘Brady’ House Is a Landmark Now — Guess These Other TV Homes

Followers of traditional TV from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s rejoiced this week when it was introduced that the Brady Bunch home — or not less than the one used for the outside photographs — would formally be designated a historic-cultural landmark. That designation means the enduring dwelling can’t be drastically renovated or demolished.

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Why the Brady Bunch Home Grew to become So Iconic

The ranch dwelling, situated in California’s San Fernando Valley and inbuilt 1959, is probably going the supply of many individuals’s love for mid-century structure, full with its distinctive split-level design, gabled roof, and immediately recognizable facade seen within the present’s opening scenes.

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Whereas the house is a magnet for traditional TV followers and was solely used for exterior photographs, it was featured prominently in an HGTV sequence after the community purchased the home and used it as the premise for the renovation present A Very Brady Renovation. Designers painstakingly recreated components of the inside so they’d resemble the memorable rooms viewers noticed on the unique TV sequence, which really filmed its inside scenes on a soundstage throughout the present’s run from 1969 to 1974.

Guess the TV Present From These Actual-Life Houses

In fact, the Brady home is much from the one real-life dwelling that turned a part of tv historical past. Surprisingly, many of those TV houses can nonetheless be considered just by pulling up Google Road View. Whereas they maintain a particular place in TV followers’ hearts, most of them are nonetheless non-public household houses.