About Friends of Sevier Park
Nashville’s 12 South and Belmont/Hillsboro neighborhoods are home to one of Nashville’s most dynamic public spaces, Sevier Park. Sevier Park's 20 acres include playgrounds, picnic shelters, playing fields, walking trails, a creek bed and an abundance of trees and open space. It is also home to the Sevier Park Community Center, which opened in June 2014, and Metro Historical Commission and Historic Zoning Commission offices, which are located inside the historic Sunnyside mansion on the parks’ property.
Area residents formed Friends of Sevier Park to help maintain and enhance this Nashville park following the Sevier Park Master Plan produced in 2011 by Metro Parks and local residents to vitalize the park, which first opened in the late 1940s. The organization is composed of 12South and Belmont/Hillsboro Neighborhood Association members as well as many residents of surrounding Sunnyside, Battlemont and Waverly Place neighborhoods and those across the county that love and use the park.
The purpose of this organization is to be a friends group for Sevier Park by helping to raise funds and maintain the park facilities. Friends of Sevier Park is a 501(c)3 organization.
A friends group requires approval from the Metro Park board, operates under the board’s authority, and must report fundraising, membership, and projects for approval and annual review. The organizations are vital to the parks system. Similar organizations have formed at Parmer in Belle Meade, Centennial, Edwin and Percy Warner, Shelby and Two Rivers parks, among others.
Area residents formed Friends of Sevier Park to help maintain and enhance this Nashville park following the Sevier Park Master Plan produced in 2011 by Metro Parks and local residents to vitalize the park, which first opened in the late 1940s. The organization is composed of 12South and Belmont/Hillsboro Neighborhood Association members as well as many residents of surrounding Sunnyside, Battlemont and Waverly Place neighborhoods and those across the county that love and use the park.
The purpose of this organization is to be a friends group for Sevier Park by helping to raise funds and maintain the park facilities. Friends of Sevier Park is a 501(c)3 organization.
A friends group requires approval from the Metro Park board, operates under the board’s authority, and must report fundraising, membership, and projects for approval and annual review. The organizations are vital to the parks system. Similar organizations have formed at Parmer in Belle Meade, Centennial, Edwin and Percy Warner, Shelby and Two Rivers parks, among others.