Museum house is still on the market

The historic house that was once home to the Dublin-Laurens Museum has yet to find a buyer. 

Placed on the market earlier this year, the 1910-constructed building remains available for $450,000 through RE/MAX Realty Team.

“We’ve had some interest on the property but haven’t come to a final agreement with anyone yet,” said Curtis Edwards, the owner and broker of the firm. 

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Local historian Scott Thompson has been working to organize the museum’s collection of artifacts and memorabilia and return donated items to their rightful owners and find new homes for other items. Whatever is left, he said, would be sold. 

“We’re trying to get out of there by the end of the month,” Thompson said. “We have a meeting [this] week to arrange the sale.”  

The museum was once housed in the Carnegie Library, until the city of Dublin gave the historical society $150,000 for the purchase of the  house, at 702 Bellevue Ave., with the stipulation that if the historical society, the museum’s operating body, ceased to exist, the city would retain ownership. Several years ago, both the city and county government ceased providing the $15,000 funding each would give to the museum. With members aging and passing away and a lack of volunteers, the historical society all but faded away, losing its nonprofit tax status last year.  

The house is owned by the Dublin-Laurens County Land Bank Authority, with proceeds of the sale going to fund that group’s mission of reclaiming and revitalizing blighted properties across the city and county.