Museum board agrees to take Gillen House

The 1904 Gillen House at 606 S. Key Avenue in Lampasas. Owner Eddie Shell has offered the Victorian home to the Lampasas County Museum Foundation. ERICK MITCHELL | DISPATCH RECORD
The 1904 Gillen House at 606 S. Key Avenue in Lampasas. Owner Eddie Shell has offered the Victorian home to the Lampasas County Museum Foundation. ERICK MITCHELL | DISPATCH RECORD

The historic Gillen House at 606 S. Key Avenue could soon fall into the hands of the Lampasas County Museum, but it will need a new home.

At Monday’s Lampasas County Museum Foundation board meeting, members agreed to conditionally accept the donation of the building from owner Eddie Shell, who has sold the property so a 7Brew Coffee shop can be built on the site. Shell said he never intended for th…