Al Gore's House

Al Gore spent 16 years in Congress for Tennessee, then 8 as vice president. An Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth and a shared Nobel Peace Prize, both 2007, made him the climate movement's face.

When the Nashville Scene spotted the Gores shopping for a house in March 2002, this was the target: white columns, a wraparound porch, a circular drive. The seller had paid $1.15M in 1999.

More than 80 years old by 2007, the house works overtime: offices and a commercial kitchen run alongside the living quarters.

In 2007 the Tennessee Center for Policy Research said the house drew over 20 times a typical home's electricity. His office countered that it doubled as a workplace and paid extra for green power.

The retrofit that followed added solar panels, geothermal heat, and rainwater collection. In December 2007 the US Green Building Council rated the house LEED Gold, a rating then held by 14 homes nationwide.

Davidson County's parcel roll maps this as 2.09 acres, 2 lots of the Royal Oaks resubdivision plus part of a closed alley. The newest instrument on file is a quitclaim deed from 2017.

Gore learned Nashville as a night-shift reporter: 5 years at The Tennessean in the 1970s, where his corruption reporting got 2 Metro councilmen arrested and prosecuted.

Al and Tipper Gore separated in 2010 shortly after buying a Montecito, CA villa; the Nashville house remained his base. The Belle Meade plantation where he grew up is nearby, and his father was a US senator from Tennessee.