Reba McEntire's House: Starstruck Farm, Beverly Park, and the Chockie Ranch

Reba McEntire signed her first record deal in 1975 and has spent the decades since as the voice country radio measures itself against, from “Whoever's in New England” to “Fancy” to 6 seasons of a sitcom carrying her own first name. For most of that run she held ground in 3 places at once: a horse farm east of Nashville, a gated estate in the hills above Beverly Hills, and the Oklahoma ranch her father grew out of 40 acres.

The Tennessee place is the one people picture. It sits on Cherokee Dock Road in Lebanon, on the Wilson County shoreline of Old Hickory Lake, a 45-minute drive east of downtown Nashville. McEntire and her then-husband and manager, Narvel Blackstock, moved in around 1989, named it Starstruck Farm after the company they ran together, added to the house, and put up the horse barn, according to the Wilson Post. They stayed about 25 years.

The exact address stays behind the ropes, where a family home belongs. For the full property breakdown, the ownership trail, the lake frontage, and the map pin:

The house the Hale family built

The lake came first, and not by much. Old Hickory Lock and Dam was authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1946, went under construction in January 1952, closed its gates in June 1954, and reached full beneficial use in December 1957. The Army Corps of Engineers named the dam for Andrew Jackson, whose Hermitage sits downriver, and the reservoir it backed up runs 97.3 miles and covers 22,500 acres. Every waterfront lot in Lebanon that people now call historic is younger than that pool.

The Southern Colonial house went up in 1960, built by the Hale family, per the venue's own history and Nashville Bride Guide. What the Hales were known for was horses. In 1962 Billy Hale and his wife bought a black Tennessee Walking Horse stallion named Ebony Masterpiece from Clay Simpson for $17,000, a startling number for the era against the $2,500 Simpson had paid in 1958. Bred at Solitude Stock Farm near Goodlettsville and trained by Sam Paschal, the horse won the World Grand Championship at the 1962 Celebration, then retired to stud and sired 3,555 foals, the highest count on the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association books. Another 5 of his sons took the same title. He was still breeding in 1986, at 30, and lived to 33. The gardens around the house were planted in that era, and the venue says some of the trees were brought in from other countries.

One caution about the build year, because the record is not clean. The venue's own site, Nashville Bride Guide, MusicRow, and WKRN all say 1960. The Wilson Post gives 1969. Property-data sites carry 1990, which lines up neatly with the McEntire-era additions rather than with original construction. The 1960 date has the most independent backing, and it is the only one the horse history supports.

The years the farm was Starstruck

McEntire came to Nashville in 1988. “I had been doing my career out of Oklahoma, which is centrally located in the United States,” she said in a 2025 interview, “but when it was time to leave Oklahoma, I went to Nashville because of work.” She married Blackstock in 1989, and the farm on the lake became the base for both the household and the business.

The hardest year came early. On March 16, 1991, a plane carrying 7 members of her band and her tour manager crashed on Otay Mountain outside San Diego, about 10 miles east of Brown Field, after a private show. Everyone aboard was killed. Other artists volunteered their own bands to her; she turned them down rather than tour with substitutes, and the album that followed, For My Broken Heart, was dedicated to the people she lost. In 1992 she cut the ribbon on Reba's Ranch House in the Texoma region on the Texas and Oklahoma line, a hospitality house for families of hospitalized patients that she had raised money for through concerts, golf tournaments, and fishing tournaments. It is a charity, not a residence, and it gets confused for one constantly.

The marriage ended in 2015 after 26 years. The farm went on the market at $7.9M in 2016 and sold in July 2017 for $5M to Nashville businessman Deron Lichte, who said he intended to run it as an event venue.

What became of the farm

He did. The property reopened as the Estate at Cherokee Dock, a wedding and event venue on 15 acres overlooking the lake, with guest rooms named for Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Johnny Cash. Nashville-based Infinity Hospitality took over management in 2021. Ben Higgins of The Bachelor married Jessica Clarke there, one of several celebrity weddings the estate has hosted.

The rest of the farm went its own way. A subdivision plan filed after the sale would have cut the surrounding land into 15 house lots, and the mansion parcel itself was relisted at $2.95M. In 2019 entrepreneur Jay Wilfong bought a 46-acre horse farm and a 7-acre lake lot that had been part of McEntire's holdings and turned the old barn into a separate venue trading under the Starstruck Farm name. One estate, now at least 3 businesses.

Lebanon is not a one-celebrity town, either: Gretchen Wilson's place sits in the same county. And Johnny Cash's house stood on the same reservoir over in Hendersonville, which is part of why his name ended up on a door at Cherokee Dock.

North Beverly Park, the other coast

The California house was a different kind of statement. McEntire and Blackstock bought in North Beverly Park in 2003 for $9M, into an enclave that carries a Beverly Hills postal address but sits inside the city of Los Angeles, up in the Santa Monica Mountains between Mulholland Drive and Sunset Boulevard.

Beverly Park has its own backstory, and it is stranger than the houses in it. The land was first slated for a golf course and country club to be named after Dean Martin. That plan died. Developers Elliot Gottfurcht and Brian Adler picked the ground up with investors starting in 1979 and finished in 1990 with a 250-acre guard-gated enclave: 64 two-acre lots, a 4-acre landscaped park, and more than 100 acres left open. Adler's idea was the gate itself, which is what separated the place from Bel-Air, Holmby Hills, and the flats of Beverly Hills. Covenants set a minimum house size, so nothing modest was ever going up there. The estate McEntire bought had been built in 1993, on 1.8 acres, with a tennis court, a pavilion, and a guest house.

She sold it in June 2015, in an off-market deal reported at $22.5M, around the time the divorce became public. Matt and Josh Altman of Douglas Elliman represented the buyer, who is not named in the public reporting. That buyer renovated and put it back up at close to $30M in 2016. McEntire had roughly doubled her money in 12 years without the house ever hitting the open market on the way out.

Chockie, and the 8,000 acres

The place she comes from has no gate at all. McEntire was born in McAlester on March 28, 1955, and grew up on the family ranch at Chockie in Atoka County, the daughter of Clark Vincent McEntire, a champion steer roper, and Jacqueline McEntire, a barrel racer. Her father started with a 40-acre plot in the 1950s and built it out to about 8,000 acres. She graduated from Kiowa High School in 1973, took a degree in elementary education with a music minor from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in 1976, and worked family land at nearby Caddo while she was in school.

Clark McEntire died in 2014. While she was choosing tracks for Love Somebody, McEntire heard the ballad that became his funeral song, then shot its video on the ranch itself, in black and white, with her mother driving a truck across the pasture to meet her. “Those old hills mean a lot to me,” she said of the place. “I lived there 21 years and they still call me back time after time.” The last frame is a photograph of her father.

Atoka County has one more McEntire landmark now, and this one is open to anyone. Reba's Place opened in Atoka on January 26, 2023, a restaurant, bar, and music room built inside a century-old Masonic Temple in partnership with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the city. “It's exciting to work with people who have a passion for this town,” she said at the opening, “and for creating jobs, tourism, and new opportunities in southeastern Oklahoma, in the community where I grew up.”

Where she lives now

Tennessee, still. Asked in a 2025 interview to name her favorite thing in the house she keeps today, McEntire went straight back to Atoka County. “In my home here in Nashville, I have the lead steer from our ranch in Oklahoma on the wall,” she said. The steer was named Henry, and she says hello to him on her way through the living room every morning. In April 2025 she and her partner, actor Rex Linn, planted a seedling from the Oklahoma City bombing's Survivor Tree on their property, on the 30th anniversary of the attack.

3 states, 3 kinds of ground, and the one still in the family is the one her father fenced. For the rest of the city's guarded front doors, start with our guide to celebrity homes in Nashville.