Renovations will start in the spring on a more than 100-year-old rail depot in Pekin.

The central Illinois city's park district is continuing plans to preserve and restore the 113-year-old Chicago & Alton Pekin Depot. Pekin Park District Director Bob Blackwell says renovations will begin in the spring.

The depot was donated to the park district in 2006. It's since been put on a new foundation and boarded up.

President Herbert Hoover, in 1932, visited the depot, which is on the site of the Santa Fe and Big Four Railroad Roundhouse that burned in 1927.

So far about $100,000 has been spent on the depot. The park district has set aside an additional $76,000.