TULLY’S BISTRO • 615-374-4243 • 333 Broadway, Hartsville, Tennessee 37074
Casual Dining & Catering
Tully’s Bistro is located in one of the oldest homes in Trousdale County -
The house is constructed of solid cedar logs. All the logs are at least a foot in diameter, with many in excess of two feet. The average length of the wall's logs are twelve to fourteen feet. The most magnificent log is the one that supports the weight of the front balcony. This massive timber has a width of almost three feet and spans the entire length of the house. The foundation of the house is green, black and yellow poplar.
Local accounts and records indicate that the home was built by the Horsley family but do not list the first names or length of possession. Clifton Jones, the second owner, passed the property down to his son Joseph Addison Jones. Joseph married twice and fathered fourteen children. Mr. Jones lived in the house until his death in August, 1898, as did his second wife until her death in 1910.
Of his children with wife Ann Elizabeth Allan, at least three are noteworthy. Pattie married John L. Dalton, whose family began the Bank of Hartsville (present day Citizens Bank) in 1905.
Zula married Bailey D. Lipscomb, whose family was instrumental in the establishment of Lipscomb University in 1891. Vallie married William R. Horsely, a relative of the home's first family.
In early 2011, Mr. Draper, 88, of Carthage, visited Tully's Bistro and recalled that Mrs. Horsley had shared her home as a boarding house, and that he and his mother had lived there for a short time in the 1930's, when he was two years old.
The house is a salt box style two identical rooms downstairs and two up with a porch, "dog trot," in the center. When first built, the upstairs loft rooms were accessed by a ladder. It wasn't until 1907 that the porch was enclosed, the staircase raised and the elegant windowed doors installed, the ones still seen in the Bistro's foyer.
After Mrs. Horsley's death in 1938, Etheridge and Ana Lese Parker took possession of the house. Hartsville locals still affectionately refer to Tully's Bistro as “the Parker House" in their honor. Etheridge J. Parker, Jr. grew up in the house, but moved from the home when he married Alma Katherine Beasley. Next to occupy the house were the third and fourth generation of Parkers, grandson Trey and wife Pam, along with their children Mary Katherine and John. They were the last family to call 333 Broadway home.
The house remained vacant many years until Judge Kenny Linville purchased the location in a public auction in November 2005. The Wilson family purchased the house in May 2006, and Jamie Wilson began restoration. The project continued 11 months and 29 days. Tully’s Bistro opened for business on April 15, 2007 (on what would have been Chef Tully’s great granddad, K. G. McKinney's 100th birthday.) Above each dining room door is a small plaque that bears a surname of Chef Tully's family--Wilson, Trotter, McKinney & Schroeder.
