Farmhouse Community Center

The Stafford-Linville tenant house is an historic Craftsman house with a front gable, a wooden porch columns on square stone supports, and a stone foundation with twin chimney historic fireplaces that is located at 8300 Linville Road. This one-story frame house was built on farmland that was purchased around 1908 by local farmer David B. Stafford and was constructed in 1931. The house served as tenant housing for families who tended crops on the property. In 1970 the house was sold to R.N. "Buster" and Edna Linville who continued to rent out the house. In 2006, the Linville family sold the house and adjoining 58 acres to the Town of Oak Ridge for the creation of Oak Ridge Town Park with the stipulation that longtime residents Chester and Linda Redmon could continue to live in the house until their deaths. The Redmons were the last in a long line of farm families who tended the farm for the Stafford and Linville families, and as a result, many people refer to the house as the Redmon House. The house was included in the Oak Ridge Historic District in 1994 and is characterized as architecturally significant as part of Oak Ridge's rural farming community. In early 2023, the Oak Ridge Town Council voted to renovate the structure and repurpose it as a meeting and event space. It was named the Farmhouse Community Center and opened to the public in 2025. 

Photo and historical credit to Sandra Brown Smith