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.
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
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.
