Out of the blue, we’ve learned that The Madison-Morgan Conservancy has contracted to purchase the Foster-Thomason-Miller house as well the adjacent empty lot (1.8 acres total facing South Main Street). This news comes just one week after the Madison City Council voted to rezone ten acres of the twelve-acre property to R-4, allowing four lots per acre.
According to Executive Director Christine McCauley Watts, “The Conservancy’s wish is to own the entire twelve-acre parcel in order to protect the openspace associated with this landmark property, but being able to protect the house is a pressing need we can fulfill immediately.”
The Foster-Thomason-Miller house was recently placed on the Georgia Trust’s 2018 list of Places in Peril.
