Historic Gadsden home opens doors for Bellenger Class Reunion

A historic Gadsden home will open its doors to the community Sunday, Nov. 15, for a special open house honoring Carolyn King Gunn Bellenger, a longtime Gadsden High School English teacher. The event, called the Bellenger Class Reunion, is intended to give former students who always wondered what Mrs. Bellenger’s home looked like an opportunity to see it for themselves. The open house is also open to the general public. Visitors can tour the home, enjoy refreshments and hear stories about the house and the woman who called it home for nearly 90 years. Admission is free, and the event will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Built in 1886 by local merchant Edward Tracy Hollingsworth, the home was sold in 1901 to Dr. Charles Logan Gunn. His daughter, Carolyn, was born there that same year and spent most of her life in the house. She married William Clinton Bellenger Jr. in 1925, but he died just nine months later following complications from an appendectomy.

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