The Bradford-Berry HousePreservation Society continues to make steady progress toward preserving one of Hendersonville’s oldest and most historically significant homes through careful research, restoration planning and community outreach. At its
On June 23, 2026, Hendersonville’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted unanimously to partner with the Bradford-Berry House Preservation Society to preserve and restore the historic 1790s home, with every
For thirty years the Bradford-Berry House drifted through owners who had no reason to love it. Then, around 2023, the City of Hendersonville did something quietly remarkable. It stepped in.
Bradford. Priestley. Willis. Berry. General Electric. The Arts Council. HTPC. The City. Eight names, two and a half centuries, one set of two-foot brick walls—and the long quiet conversation between
For National Historic Preservation Month: how Sumner County’s Bradford-Berry House survived decades of neglect because someone, every time, refused to let it go.
For about a hundred years, anyone who walked into the parlor of the Bradford-Berry House looked up and saw something they would not have expected on the Cumberland frontier. Crystal
Stand in front of the Bradford-Berry House and you will notice the silence first. Two centuries of weather and traffic and Tennessee summers have done what they do, but the
There is a house on Drake’s Creek in Sumner County, Tennessee, that has stood for more than two hundred and thirty years. Its brick walls are two feet thick, built
As the United States approaches America’s 250th anniversary in 2026, communities across the nation are looking back at the people whose courage and labor shaped the republic. In Sumner County
As we gather in gratitude today, I’m reminded of a tender moment from the life of Jean Bradford, written more than a century ago — yet as relatable now as
