Eric Church's House

Country’s aviator-wearing outsider, the singer behind “Springsteen.” His 2011 album Chief topped the Billboard 200, and the CMA named him entertainer of the year in 2020.

The neighborhood grew up around Travellers Rest, Judge John Overton’s Federal-style house from the late 1790s. The Colonial Dames saved it from railroad demolition in 1954 and run it as a museum today.

Confederate general John Bell Hood made Travellers Rest his headquarters on December 2, 1864, and drew a 5-mile defensive line from it. After the defeat, a Union general slept in Hood’s old room.

The house Eric and his wife, Katherine, bought was straight out of the 1970s, in his telling. The remodel spared little beyond the fireplace, and CMT’s “Cribs” toured the finished rooms in 2010.

Davidson County’s parcel roll puts the lot at 2 acres in the Farrell Heights tract, cut in a resubdivision of 3 earlier lots. Eric and Katherine bought here in 2008, the year they married.

The family’s retreat is elsewhere: an 1,800-acre farm about 20 minutes out with 2 stocked bass lakes and a 1920s moonshine still. “I’m not a big people guy,” Eric told Garden & Gun in 2021.

Chief’s, Eric’s 6-story bar at 200 Broadway, opened in April 2024 with church pews in its Neon Steeple venue. He had already deeded bricks of the building to fans: “This is our house.”