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Restoration of Current Building
In 1990, the Bradley Academy Historical Association (BAHA) was chartered for the purpose of reclaiming and rehabilitating the 1917 building. That same year the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1991, the Tennessee Historical Commission erected a historic marker in front of Bradley Academy to designate its importance to the community. The city, which had used the building for maintenance and storage for twenty years, leased the building to the non-profit BAHA to restore it as a multi-purpose community facility.
During the 1990s, the BAHA, the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, the City of Murfreesboro, the Tennessee Historical Commission, and Congressman Bart Gordon, with substantial assistance from the Christy-Houston Foundation, the Tennessee General Assembly, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, have succeeded in totally renovating the 1917 historic building. The first phase of the restoration was planned by Charles Warterfield and Associates architectural firm of Nashville with Parsley Brothers of Murfreesboro as contractors. The second phase, completed in August of 1999, was under the direction of Klein Swinney Associates Architects of Nashville and Kaydon of Ashland City contracted. Bradley Academy, reopened to the public in the fall of 1999, houses an exhibit on the county's nineteenth century history, a heritage classroom, an auditorium, kitchen, and office space.
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