Golfing is optional to Brentwood Country Club residents but it's a beautiful course whether you play it or just gaze at it from your back porch.
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By NANCY MUELLER
For Brentwood Home Page
Brentwood Country Club – the neighborhood -- has a long history as an especially convenient place to live.
Located just off Franklin Road north of Murray Lane, the 215 or so acres that make up the BCC and its golf course were once a part of the antebellum Midway Plantation owned by Lysander McGavock and his wife Elizabeth Crockett.
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Brentwood Country Club
This neighborhood is named after the surrounding country club and was built around its golf course. You can live here without joining the club if you like. Located on the west side of town.
Entrance: Entrance on Franklin Road
No. of homes: 137 homes
Price Range: $678,500-$1.1 million
Timeline: Built mostly in the 1990s
HOA dues: $145/quarter
Utilities: Underground utilities
Notes: Twice weekly trash pickup, neighborhood summer picnic
Schools: SES,BMS,BHS
Website: www.brentwoodcountryclubhoa.com
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The plantation, so named because it was about midway between Franklin and Nashville, also encompassed what are now the McGavock Farms and Princeton Hills subdivisions.
During the Civil War, the property turned out to be a convenient location for occupying armies – from both sides.
The gracious, two-story red brick house that the McGavocks lived in still stands today. Preserved and renovated, it serves as the clubhouse for the BCC – the country club. In 1955 when they were building the 18-hole golf course that is its centerpiece feature, the builders discovered pre-Columbian artifacts.
These artifacts tell us that people thousands of years ago also found it convenient to live on this land, probably due to the proximity of the Little Harpeth River which can be seen from Franklin Road separating the golf course from the backyards of McGavock Farms.
In 2010, people are still finding this neighborhood to be especially convenient.
“I’ve sold two houses in here as a result of being able to walk to Starbucks,” said Shirley Putnam of Crye Leike Realtors. “We’re very conveniently located.”
Country club membership is not a requirement for BCC residents, though many of people who live here do chose to take part. The club’s amenities include a swimming pool, poolhouse, and social activities in the clubhouse, which also has food service.
Membership options range from full membership to all of BCC’s amenities to social memberships, which doesn’t include golf.
Putnam, who also lives in the neighborhood, said its walkable distance from the stores and shops of “downtown” Brentwood is the second strongest selling point for a house in the subdivision, after the golf course.
The combination of both selling points in one neighborhood is actually pretty rare.
“Most golf-course communities are out in the middle of nowhere,” Putnam pointed out.
For many years, the country club existed without the houses. It wasn’t until 1987 that Hickory Development Co. created the 140-lot subdivision of large custom homes.
The builders included Bob Stanley, Jerry and Linda Krohn, Charlie Jackson and Bailey Homes, and the houses were situated adjacent to the golf course.
The architecture here is gracious and traditional; many of the homes have basements.
Six of them are for sale right now, and all of them were built in the 1990s.
Putnam has one of those listings, a 4,111-square foot house with four bedrooms and four and a half baths, for $678,500.
Among the other five houses currently on the market, the sizes range from 3,667-5,873 square feet. The asking prices top out at $899,000.
