Just four years ago, four buildings on Morris Street were condemned and set to be demolished. Now, they could become apartment homes.
Mike Bedenbaugh, executive director for The Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation, said the organization bought the homes to save them.
Bedenbaugh said they were built in the 1850s, and he says all evidence points to them being slave cabins. Bedenbaugh says a Columbia-area couple is under contract to buy them.
He said they want to renovate the single-room homes to make them more modern, while keeping the historic look. The homes would then be rented out as apartment homes, he said. In order to make this happen, Anderson's city planning commission has to approve a rezoning request from single family to multi-family residential.