Some houses become so tied to a film that people forget they’re real buildings with mailboxes, neighbors and property taxes. Fans still drive across states to stand on the sidewalk for a photo. The owners, meanwhile, have to live with that.
Plenty of these homes have changed hands, been rebuilt or been quietly protected since their moment on screen. Here’s a look at seven of them and what’s known about each one now.
The Home Alone House in Winnetka, Illinois
The McCallister family home is a Georgian style brick house at 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka. It was built in the 1920s and served as the main set of the 1990 holiday movie. It’s still a private residence, and it doesn’t open its doors to the public, though crowds stop to take pictures, especially at the holidays.
The house was listed in 2024 at a price of five and a quarter million dollars. One report says it sold for five and a half million dollars after an offer above asking. It had an interior renovation before the sale, and ABC7 reported in December 2025 that it would be returned to its 1990 look. Fans who remember the interior should know it was never really there. Family scenes were shot at New Trier Township High School because the house was too small for the cast and crew.
The Goonies House in Astoria, Oregon
The Walsh family home from the 1985 film sits in Astoria, on the Oregon coast. It was built in 1896, and it drew fresh attention when a fan buyer bought it and began restoring it to its on screen look. The address is 368 38th Street, and one summary says the Victorian sold in 2023 for one million six hundred fifty thousand dollars.
The current owner is listed as Behman Zakeri, and a recent summary says he intends to preserve the home for fans rather than sell it. Visiting takes some care. Visitors are told to park in the neighborhood and walk uphill, since driving up directly is prohibited. A visitor in August 2026 wrote that the new owners have restored the house to its original set glory.
The Mrs. Doubtfire House in San Francisco
The Hillard family home is at 2640 Steiner Street, in Pacific Heights. It’s a four bedroom house built in 1893 by architect Joachim B. Mathison, who also designed the Burlingame Railroad Depot. The film even gives the address aloud, which makes it easy to find.
The last sale on record was in 2016, when it sold for four million one hundred fifty thousand dollars after being listed at four million four hundred fifty thousand. The previous owner had bought it in 1997 for about one million four hundred thousand dollars. It’s privately owned and the inside can’t be viewed, and after Robin Williams died in 2014, fans left flowers and cards on the sidewalk outside.
The Brady Bunch House in Studio City, California
Here’s a house that was never really a set. Only exterior shots were used on television, and the show itself was filmed on a soundstage. HGTV bought it in 2018 for three and a half million dollars and remodeled the outside and inside to match the series.
The remodel was not small. The original house had only one story, but the show’s sets suggested two, so it was expanded to 5,140 square feet with a second story added. In 2023 it went on the market for five and a half million dollars and sold for just under three and a half… That was actually just under three point two million dollars, to a self described fan. She said she plans to use it for charity and fundraising events.
The Psycho House at Universal Studios Hollywood
The Bates family mansion is probably the most recognizable Gothic house in film. It was built for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller and still stands on the Universal backlot in California. It’s a set exterior, so there’s no family inside.
Visitors can see it from the studio tram tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. Because it’s part of an operating theme park and working studio, it gets looked after in a way private homes don’t. For anyone who wants the house itself rather than a replica, this is the original structure.
The Ghostbusters Firehouse in Tribeca, New York
The exterior of the Ghostbusters headquarters is Hook & Ladder Company 8, a firehouse on North Moore Street in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. The interior in the 1984 film was shot elsewhere, in a Los Angeles firehouse. Even so, the New York building is the one fans line up to photograph.
It’s still a working FDNY station, which is the main thing to know before you go. Crews respond to calls from there, so the apparatus bay isn’t a museum. The sidewalk in front is public, and the building has long since become a minor landmark of its own.
The Ferris Bueller House in Highland Park, Illinois
Cameron Frye’s family home is a modernist glass and steel pavilion in Highland Park, a suburb north of Chicago. It’s the setting for the famous garage scene in the 1986 film, which makes it one of the more architecturally unusual movie houses on this list. Those who know the film recall the glass walls, which are as striking in real life as on screen.
It’s a private property in a residential area, and it isn’t a tourist attraction. Fans who go should view it from the road only, and I’d skip looking for ownership details, which change. Of the seven houses here, this one is the quietest about its fame.
