From Family Home to Arts Center: The 20th Century

Oil painting of the weathered two-story red-brick Bradford-Berry House on an overcast autumn day, its windows boarded and its front porch empty, standing in tall dry grass among bare trees.

Sarah Berry sold the homestead to General Electric in 1968 and ended eighty-one years of Berry ownership in a single signature. The next thirty years would see the Bradford-Berry House move from family home to corporate holding to community arts center to developer’s asset—and nearly into the kind of decline that does not come back.

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