By BRAVETTA HASSELL Scene Writer on Mar 21, 2013, at 11:36 AM Updated on 3/21 at 11:41 AM
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The
Associated Press reports that the widow of actor
Andy Griffith has secured a permit to tear down a house he lived in for many years, upsetting friends who'd planned to turn the waterfront North Carolina property into a museum.
Court records confirm that Cindi Griffith obtained a demolition permit Monday for the house that sits along the Roanoke Sound, which Andy Griffith had purchased in the 1950s.
According to William Ivey Long, a Tony-award winning costume designer and family friend of Andy Griffith's and his first wife, Griffith had told him in 2007 that he wanted to preserve the home as a museum.
"We compared notes," Long told the AP. "I had to fit mine into an existing museum. I told him, if you're doing yours, you can make it however you want it."
Long said Griffith wanted the museum to include memorabilia from his TV shows and music career.
By Wednesday, Cindi Griffith hadn't responded to the AP's messages.
But it reports that her husband - best known as Sheriff Andy Taylor on the "The Andy Griffith Show" and Ben Matlock on "Matlock" - didn't make any mention of the property or the museum plans in the will he had drawn up last May, two months before he died. The will turns over most of his property and estate to a trustee whose records are not public.
The house facing demolition is different from a larger home located nearby that Andy and Cindi Griffith had built several years ago.
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