SAN ANTONIO -- Bill Miller Bar-B-Q has agreed to purchase Carol Burnett's childhood home as part of a project to relocate and preserve the one-story Victorian house.

The company had planned to raze the home to clear space for a parking lot accompanying a rebuilt restaurant next door.

The company reached an agreement last week with American Sunrise, a nonprofit housing and education program led by former U.S. housing secretary Henry Cisneros.

The nonprofit will cover the cost of dismantling the house into three pieces and moving it eight blocks to an after-school learning center for elementary school children.

Burnett's famed career has included Broadway, movies and "The Carol Burnett Show." She has often spoken of her memories of the house, where she lived with her grandmother until she was seven.