The Most Iconic TV Houses Of All Time

From scene-stealing characters to enduring theme songs, we love to celebrate all aspects of our favorite television shows. So, we thought it was about time that we sent some love to the TV houses that have wormed their way into the pop-culture history books. Just a glance at some of these homes will bring viewers back to a certain time period and evoke all sorts of nostalgic feelings. Every home has a story, even a TV home.

Though our list has a good mixture of houses pulled from comedy and drama, there are some commonalities. For one, the vast majority of these homes belong to iconic television families. For another, all of the abodes on our list are real-life homes rather than homes built on a studio lot. We also steered clear of apartment buildings for this particular list and focused on homes that would be instantly recognizable to most viewers. This left us with a solid lot of TV houses — many of which were used only for outdoor shots, but all of which bring us to a happy place. Here are 21 of the most iconic TV houses of all time.

It would be hard to talk about TV families and not mention "The Brady Bunch" and their iconic blended household. By that same token, we could not possibly have a list of the enduring TV homes and not include the Brady's Studio City split-level stunner. The home featured on "The Brady Bunch" was used for all of the exterior shots during the show's run, from 1969 to 1974, with internal sets housed on Paramount's Stage 5 set, per House Beautiful. The ranch-style home went on the market in 2018 — for the first time in 50 years, and was almost purchased by pop singer Lance Bass.

In the end, HGTV bought the home for $3.5 million, and they used it to launch a television series called "A Very Brady Renovation," in which the actors who portrayed the six Brady children and HGTV celebrities collaborated to turn the inside of the home into a replica of the set. "All of America knew that the inside did not match what the set was on the show. What we didn't realize was just how different it was," said HGTV's Loren Ruch in an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News. "We took this gigantic leap of faith buying this house, and once we stepped in that first time it was like, 'Oh my God, what are going to do with this place?'" Years later, it is unclear what HGTV's plans are for the Brady home going forward.

At the beginning of AMC crime drama "Breaking Bad," Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is not yet a criminal mastermind but a high school chemistry teacher living modestly. As such, his home was nothing particularly special — and even when Walt began to rake in more money from his drug empire, the White home remained the same. The "Breaking Bad" house is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the show was set, and the ranch-style White residence can be seen in all five seasons of the show. Per Velvet Ropes, the real-life home was built in 1972 and is 1,910 square feet, with a pool in the backyard.

Unlike many television shows, "Breaking Bad" was not filmed in Hollywood. The city even lists filming locations on its tourism website (see here), and there are multiple tours for fans to see where the show was shot. Though the Whites lived at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, the real home has a different address and is not listed on the city's website — but this has not stopped fans from finding it. According to news reports, the owners had to build an iron fence due to the number of viewers who visit wanting selfies in front of the abode (per CBC).

Like seemingly everything nowadays, "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" was remade within the last few years. But even though Hollywood developed a new show based around Sabrina Spellman — Netflix's "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" — we are partial to the cheesy 1996 sitcom version, ABC's "Sabrina the Teenage Witch." In the show, Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) lived in a gorgeous Victorian home alongside her aunts Zelda (Beth Broderick) and Hilda (Caroline Rhea) and talking cat Salem.

"Sabrina the Teenage Witch" was set in Westbridge, Massachusetts, which does not actually exist but very much sounds like it could be a real Boston suburb. And while the bulk of the show was filmed on studio lots in Los Angeles, the 4,862 square foot home that was used for the exterior shots of the show is actually located in Freehold, New Jersey. It went up for sale for $1.95 million in October 2021, per the Daily Mail. Someone conjure up a spell for a couple of million dollars, stat.

"American Horror Story" is a bit different from the other series on our list, in that it is an anthology series that changes casts and locations each season. Nonetheless, Season 1 of the show brought us one of the most iconic homes that TV has ever seen, and we absolutely had to include this "murder house" on our list. The house reemerged for Season 8, and it was also featured in the first episode of the spin-off "American Horror Stories."

The mansion, lovingly referred to as the "murder house," is actually called the Rosenheim Mansion, according to Newsweek. It is an official Historic and Cultural Landmark, located at 1120 Westchester Place in Los Angeles. It has six bedrooms and six bathrooms, and everything from a recording studio to a ballroom. Interestingly, nuns used to inhabit the home, and the former chapel was digitally removed for its usage on "American Horror Story." Though the owners of the home filed a lawsuit against the previous owner for not disclosing the "AHS" connection (per Newsweek), they seem to have embraced the ghoulish link. In 2020, they opened the home up to the public for a Halloween event.

The 10-season sitcom "Roseanne" famously put Lanford, Illinois, on the map when it made its debut in 1988 — or at least, it would have if Lanford actually existed. The iconic home that was used for the show can actually be found in Evansville, Illinois, at 619 Runnymeade Avenue. According to USA Today, one of the sitcom's creators, Matt Williams, is originally from Evansville, which explains the connection. Many of the outdoor shots were taken around the city of Evansville.

The home (which can also currently be seen on the "Roseanne" spin-off "The Conners") sold in 2004 for a measly $55,000, per USA Today. Since then, it has sold five more times, and its value has gone up by more than $75,000. The home is now a rental and, according to 14 News, Roseanne herself once unsuccessfully attempted to purchase it (on Twitter, naturally). The comedienne may not have scored the 1925 craftsman, but its place in TV history is solidified no matter who owns it.

"Modern Family" made us laugh for 11 seasons, airing on ABC from 2009 to 2020. And because of the structure of the show, which featured a large, close-knit extended family across three households, "Modern Family" gave us not one, but multiple iconic homes. Let's start with the Dunphy home, a two-story abode located at 10336 Dunleer Drive in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles (per Glamour). The 2,792 square foot house, which was built in 2006, is worth more than $2.3 million (per Los Angeles Magazine). Near to this home is the Pritchett-Tucker residence, a Century City duplex at 2211 Fox Hills Drive.

But those two homes are small beans next to the larger, prettier contemporary house that Jay (Ed O'Neill) and his family occupy on "Modern Family." This two-story home is located in Brentwood, California, and production designer Richard Berg told Architectural Digest that production adjusted the studio sets to match the footprint of the home. "The footprint in the rear did not at all match the layout we had onstage, so we modified the shape of the windows to accommodate that. We also matched the outdoor fireplace," he said.

"All in the Family" is often listed as one of the best sitcoms of all time – take this TV Guide list, for example — and Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) is one of the most memorable characters ever to grace the small screen. "All in the Family" aired on CBS from 1971 to 1979, after which the spin-off "Archie Bunker's Place" ran for another four seasons. The Bunker home was featured on both programs, and the semi-detached duplex became a central part of the character's universe.

According to Daily News, the house is located at 89-70 Cooper Avenue in the Glendale neighborhood of Queens, New York. This is contrary to the narrative set forth by "All in the Family," in which the Bunkers lived in Astoria on a street that does not exist (Hauser Street). Per the same article, show creator Norman Lear randomly discovered the home on his way to the airport. "I left for the airport early. And I got off the turnpike to LaGuardia in Queens, and went past this row of houses. And I thought, this is a great location," Lear said. "No other reason, except that I knew Archie was going to be a New Yorker. That's how I found the house."

"Designing Women" was on the air for seven seasons, from 1986 to 1993 on CBS. While the show took place in Atlanta, Georgia, the Italian-style home featured in external shots is actually located in Arkansas. It can be found at 1321 Scott Street in Little Rock, according to Country Living. The "Designing Women" spent an overwhelming bulk of their time in the home, given that it was not only Julia Sugarbaker's (Dixie Carter) residence but also the office for the cast's interior design firm, Sugarbakers & Associates.

Known as Villa Marre, the four-bedroom home is 4,847 square feet, not including the basement (per Arkansas Online). It has two parlors and a library but, for some reason, only one and a half baths. The home went on the market in 2017, with the asking price of $975,000 (which included a carriage house out back). It sold two years later for much less — $463,500 — to a local attorney (per the Star Advertiser).

Most of the characters on "Mad Men" spent far more time at the office than they did at home, which means that we got less of the familial aspects of their lives. Despite this, main character Don Draper (Jon Hamm) was featured at home quite a bit, particularly in the early seasons when he was still married to Betty (January Jones) and living with his children. And since Betty remained in the Draper home after the divorce, said home was a staple of the program's seven seasons. The front door was actually painted red (from blue) each and every time production wanted to shoot there, per Los Angeles Magazine.

With its class American look, the gorgeous "Mad Men" colonial has become an iconic television home. On the show, the home was said to be in Ossining, a village in Westchester County, New York. The address given was 42 Bullet Park Road, which does not exist. The actual home can be found in California — at 675 Arden Road in Pasadena, to be precise (per Los Angeles Magazine). This puts it directly across the street from another famous on-screen house, the one from "Father of the Bride." Interestingly, a New Rochelle, New York, home was erroneously labeled the "Mad Men" house when it was put on the market in 2015 (via USA Today), but that home had columns that the Draper house lacked.

The classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" aired on CBS for seven wonderful seasons, from 1970 to 1977. It was groundbreaking for its time, in that the main character Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore), was a single and independent woman who was focused more on her career than her domestic life. Though the focus was very much on Mary in the newsroom at WJM News, the show also frequently featured Mary at home. And sure, she technically lived in an apartment, but since the apartment was a unit in a large home divided into flats, we think it fits nicely on our list.

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was set in Minneapolis, and the home used for establishing shots was, in reality, also located in Minneapolis. The home — located at 2104 Kenwood Parkway — was used for the first three seasons of the show, after which producers made a switch because of an argument with the owner (per Entertainment Weekly, which called Mary's apartment "TV's most famous bachelorette pad"). After years on the market, the home sold in 2017 for $1.45 million. The 9,500 square foot Victorian is not actually divided into apartments, but a seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom manse (via Twin Cities Pioneer Press).