Tag: Sarah Berry

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.

From Family Home to Arts Center: The 20th Century

June 17, 2026 No Comments

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

Vintage blue biplane flying over the rolling patchwork farmland of Sumner County, Tennessee at golden hour

The Berry Purchase: A Nashville Dynasty Moves to Sumner County

June 10, 2026 No Comments

By 1887, the Bradford-Berry House was nearly a century old. The founder had been dead for seventy-two years. The family had scattered. The brick walls were still standing—and in Nashville,

A small Federal-style red brick farmhouse stands at the edge of a wildflower meadow at golden hour, backed by green forest and distant low mountains under a warm hazy sky.

From Bradford to Berry to You: The Chain of Ownership

May 27, 2026 No Comments

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