Homewood
Homewood to tear down historic home despite public opposition
The house that once hosted Fitzgerald and Hemingway will likely be torn down to make way for five new homes.
Photo courtesy of the What’s Happening in Homewood Facebook group.
Earlier this month, the Homewood Planning Commission approved the demolition of the city’s historic Bridges Home, Over the Mountain Journal reports. This decision comes despite public outcry defending the building’s historical and cultural significance to the area.
The home will be torn down so that owner Pat O’Sullivan can build five new houses on the property. But attendees of the June 5 commission meeting argued that the home, which had been visited by important figures such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, is irreplaceable.
Though sympathetic, the commission approved O’Sullivan’s request to subdivide the property into six lots, which clears the way for demolition plans. O’Sullivan said he would be open to any alternative plans for the property brought to him before the end of January 2019.
Read the full report at Over the Mountain Journal.
