Fresh Prince House – For Real This Time!

Major

fan Bryan posted a comment on my original

asking me to please, please, please find the actual location of the mansion used as the Banks'”‘”‘ house on the 90s show. Bryan told me he had been looking for this location for years and every tour book seemed to have gotten it wrong. Being that I know the feeling of complete desperation in not being able to find a location, I made it my mission to find the house for him! I am sad to say it took me a really long time! I have literally stopped to take a picture of every single colonial style mansion I have driven by over the past month to compare to a picture Bryan had sent me of the

house. I was absolutely convinced I had located the right house on two separate occasions, but after coming home to compare pictures, I found I was completely wrong. Then the other night, a lightbulb went off in my head. I decided to look at a filming locations website – the same one where I located the

. Why I didn'”‘”‘t think of this sooner, I have no idea, because in a matter of minutes I was pretty sure I had found the house! I immediately emailed a picture of the house to Bryan and he confirmed it for me, as did the location company. Then I set off to Brentwood (NOT Bel Air) to stalk the house.

Unfortunately my pictures came out absolutely horrible!! There are many trees in front of the Banks'”‘”‘ mansion and I could not get my camera to focus correctly on the house through the trees. My dad, who has a much better camera than I do, has promised to stalk the house with me later to take some better pics. The good news, though, is that if you drive by the house, you can definitely see it clearly through the trees and I am so happy to report that it looks EXACTLY the same as it did back in the

days. I was just standing there waiting for a taxi cab to drive up with dice in the mirror. 🙂 An ironic side note – I randomly watched the pilot episode of

the other night and featured on that episode, big as life, was the incorrectly identified

house from my first post! It was used as the location of the Beverly Hills mansion where Brandon and Brenda attend their first West Beverly High party. Since both the pilot episodes of

and

were filmed around the same time back in 1990, my thought is that people and neighbors saw

being filmed at the house and since neither show was well-known at all at that time, heard it was a show about “Beverly Hills” and got it confused when a show about “Bel Air” premiered. Through incorrect word of mouth and communication error, the location wound up in tour books as the

house. That'”‘”‘s my theory anyway. 🙂 Until next time, Happy Stalking! 🙂

: The

house is located at 251 N. Bristol Avenue, at the corner of Bristol Avenue and Parkyns Street, in Brentwood. Katherine Heigl‘”‘”‘s sister'”‘”‘s house from the movie

is located just up the road at 531 N. Bristol, but unfortunately that home is now gated and not much can be seen at all from the street. The incorrectly identified

house, where the Walsh twins went to their first Beverly Hills party, is located in Bel Air, at 417 Amapola Lane.

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