A house connected to author Connie May Fowler has been approved for demolition after a vote by members of St. Augustine s Historic Architectural Review Board.
Historian David Nolan, who has done extensive research on area properties, wrote a letter to HARB urging them to save 29 Masters Drive for its historical value. But the board decided its history wasn t significant enough to deny the application for demolition.
Fowler is one of a number of notable authors with ties to St. Johns County, including Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Fowler wrote River of Hidden Dreams and other books as well as poems and essays.