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The burghal of Katy's signature alternation annex and visitors' centermost will anon attending added like its old cocky - with a new roof and adequate gable end overhang -thanks to an old photo and taxes paid by guests at Katy hotels.
Work on the annex should activate by the aboriginal anniversary in August, said burghal Parks Director Jamie Wolman. Rebuilt windows, ability washing, exoteric acrylic and autogenous acme abstraction - forth with the new roof - are all allotment of the advance project, said burghal Treasurer Byron Hebert.
At its July 9 meeting, Burghal Council accustomed a $40,684 admission for the apology from the city's auberge control tax fund.
Katy's Railroad Park, at 5615 Aboriginal St., is home to the celebrated Missouri-Kansas-Texas Depot, which was congenital in 1898 and now houses the city's Information and Tourist Centermost as able-bodied as a Railroad Museum. The Katy Heritage Society's red berth is additionally amid in the park.
"This is so important and the annex needs it so badly," said Councilwoman Carol Adams. "This is a huge thing."
Hotel control taxes are paid by guests at hotels central Katy burghal limits. The tax assets charge be acclimated to abutment and advance the Katy convention, tourism and auberge industry.
Work on the annex was aggressive by an old photo that showed an connected roof overhanging the gable on the building's west end, agnate to the east end.
According to its actual marker, the annex was complete in 1898, and commuter alternation account connected in Katy until 1957. The burghal acquired the annex in 1979 and confused it to its accepted armpit in 2005.
Wolman said the west overhang was removed during one of several antecedent moves. The new roof will accommodate that overhang, and will affection able shingles that attending like the aboriginal copse shingles, but are added durable, she said.
"I accept in celebrated canning and that we should accumulate it as abutting as we can to the aboriginal way it was built," Wolman said. "That's what we're aggravating to get aback to."
David Frishman, a Katy advocate who was complex with burghal government aback back the Katy Heritage Society formed to save the annex and it was acquired by the city, said he was "awed and appreciative" of the city's advancing charge to attention the anatomy over abounding years.
"It's become an figure for this community," said Frishman, who now chairs the burghal planning and zoning commission. "So abounding communities don't accent their history, and Katy does."
O'Malley Construction is assuming the advance and expects to complete the assignment after this fall, Wolman said.
Karen Hastings is a freelance biographer who can be accomplished at karenphastings@gmail.com
