What would the real 'Brady Bunch' house architect make of HGTV's 'Very Brady Renovation'?
LOS ANGELES - In 1959, an architect by the name of Harry M. Londelius built a spacious house at 11222 Dilling St. in Studio City that featured all the latest Modern trappings: two bedrooms and three bathrooms arranged over a generous 2,500-square-foot split-level structure with a shake roof, cathedral ceilings and generous helpings of Palos Verde stone.
In his wildest dreams, Londelius couldn't have imagined that this suburban home would become a television star: the principal exterior for ABC's "The Brady Bunch," its pitched roof and beige wood paneling pummeled into the national consciousness over the blended-family sitcom's five-year run from 1969 to 1974, followed by decades of syndication.
Londelius, in fact, would never know the fate of the house.
He died in 1960, only a year after it was built and a full nine years before its debut in the series' second episode (which first aired on Oct. 3, 1969), and decades before the phrase "'Brady Bunch' house" became shorthand for crafty late Modernism redolent of Formica and chunky ceramic lamps. It's impossible to know what Londelius would make of the home's current fate -
