ABOUT THE GUNN-BELLENGER HOUSE

The historic Gunn-Bellenger House was built in 1886 by Edward Tracy Hollingsworth, a local merchant and banker. Hollingsworth and his new wife, Julia, moved into the house in November of 1886. Hollingsworth sold the house to a local dentist named Charles Logan Gunn in 1901. The house would remain in the Gunn family for the next 90 years. Upon the death of Dr. Gunn, the house was left to his daughter Carolyn Gunn Bellenger who was a well-known educator in Gadsden for 30 years.  Mrs. Bellenger bequeathed the house to The City of Gadsden upon her passing in September of 1990. 

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Since that time, the house has undergone some minor restorations and updates but still remains one of Alabama's earliest intact examples of the Victorian-style homes that were popular in the South at the time it was built. According to the Society of Architectural Historians, the house is an "eclectic confection of styles from the period". They describe the house as "boldly asymmetrical" and "partly enfolded by a latticed Eastlake porch that is somewhat visually at odds with its steep-sided mansard roof borrowed from the Second Empire style" with "hooded gables thrust from the main roofline over bay-windowed pavilions". At the time of its construction, the house would probably have been referred to by locals as Queen Anne Style.

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The Gunn-Bellenger House was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1984 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

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The house is currently under private ownership, the restoration process is complete, and the house is available as a beautiful event space for weddings, showers, private events, and more.