The most famous TV house in America — second only to the White House — may soon receive official landmark status. And according to Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight, fans don’t just visit the home in Studio City… they cry when they walk through the door.
The beloved split-level ranch that served as the exterior of the Bradys’ home was officially presented to the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission last week, marking the first of four hearings that could end with the property being named a designated landmark.
Ahead of the hearing, Knight — who played middle brother Peter Brady — posted on Instagram asking viewers to write letters of support for what he called “America’s childhood home.”
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'Fans Cry When They Step Foot Inside'
August 27, 1969. Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Maureen McCormick, Barry Williams, Ann B Davis, Florence Henderson and Robert ReedABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content Via Getty Images)
Speaking with the New York Post, Knight said he has seen firsthand how emotional visitors become.
“I think it represents sanctuary . . . that we have a supportive, loving place to call home,” he said.
Fans, he added, project their own childhoods onto the house.
“I believe people think that there’s a little Brady in all of us. There’s an aspirational component to it, that we can all do better," said Knight.
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Many supporters sent letters to help bolster the home’s landmark application, written by architectural historian Heather Goers — who also worked to save Marilyn Monroe’s house.
Goers admitted she was moved to tears reading them.
“I lost count of the number of letters I got. I’m reading them and I’m bawling every night,” she said. “I did not anticipate the number of people whose childhoods were so deeply impacted by this show.”
A Safe Haven for Viewers Who Needed It Most
Season 1 - 10/3/69, A newspaper article led Jan (Eve Plumb, second from left), Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Bobby (Mike Lookinland) and Peter (Christopher Knight) to believe that they were breaking up their parents' (Florence Henderson and Robert Reed, as Carol and Mike Brady) new marriage.,ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
Knight shared that fans sometimes connected the show to their own difficult childhoods.
“It represents either a reflection of their own life, if they, for instance, came from a large Catholic family and had to share a bathroom . . . and then quite the opposite, for those who were latchkey kids, driven to it because we became surrogate brothers and sisters," said the actor.
Goers told the commission about one particularly moving letter she read aloud, "The first paragraph was a very detailed description of the abuse that this gentleman and his siblings suffered. And while watching the show, they looked at each other and said, ‘Why don’t those kids get beaten up like we do?’ And he went on to say, ‘We all grew up and had kids, and we reminded each other that without The Brady Bunch, how would we have known to be better parents?'”
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HGTV’s Renovation Turned the House Into a Time Machine
'Going Going Steady' - Airdate October 23, 1970. Maureen McCormick, Rory Stevens and Robert Reed.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
Although the real Brady Bunch cast never worked inside the house — the interior scenes were filmed on a soundstage — the home changed forever when HGTV bought it in 2018 and launched A Very Brady Renovation, where all six Brady kid actors helped transform the interiors into precise replicas of the original set.
Owner Tina Trahan, who purchased the house for $3.2 million in 2023, called the effect surreal, saying, "When I walked in the house, it’s like a time machine. You walk into your childhood."
During filming, fans were so eager to see the home that HGTV reportedly hired security guards to count cars.
“They said on the weekends, 50 to 80 a day, and during the week, 30 to 50,” Trahan said.
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Trahan has spent “hundreds of thousands” of dollars sourcing over 400 replicas of items from the original show, including:
The Brady family’s three classic cars (1973 Caprice convertible, 1971 Barracuda convertible, 1971 Plymouth Satellite wagon)A Kitty Karry-all doll like Cindy’sAlice’s bowling shirtThe vase Peter famously brokeA custom-built “Brady Booth” dunk tankSalt and pepper shakers, coffee pot, posters, trophies, ribbons — exactly as they appeared on-screenKnight says Trahan’s dedication goes far beyond the usual TV nostalgia.
“She’s taken it to a whole other level. There’s a chalkboard in the kitchen, and she’s made sure that the writing on it is from one of our episodes," said Knight.
She has never rented the home on Airbnb, saying it would be disrespectful to the neighborhood and the property itself.
Instead, Trahan partners with nonprofits like No Kid Hungry and the John Ritter Foundation to offer 90-minute tours for charity, sometimes with the Brady “kids” themselves serving as tour guides.
“People freak out,” she said.
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A Home Worth Saving
Though only the exterior was ever filmed, the Brady house has become a symbol of something much larger — idealism, comfort, and the kind of family people either had, or wished they had.
And for many, the possibility of landmark status feels like the home finally receiving the official respect it has long earned.
As Knight put it, the immediate warmth people show him — even strangers inviting him to dinner — comes from this single place: “I feel like I’m a relative to America . . . the immediacy with which a complete stranger takes me in, like, literally would invite me to dinner with the family.”
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