WOODSTOCK – A Rockford-based masonry contractor will begin work on the historical Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House when weather allows.

The City Council on Tuesday night approved a bid by Mike Harris Mason Contractor Inc. to move along three first-year repair projects in a five-year plan to restore the dilapidated historical building.

The three repairs, which will cost about $37,000, focus on an eroded portion of the south wall of the Old Courthouse, the parapet on the west wall, and the south wall of the Sheriff’s House.