Lexington's Urban County Government is building a house in North Lexington that it hopes will blend right in with the neighborhood.

However, this house will have odor control and sound containment instead of hardwood floors and an eat-in kitchen. And at $2.1 million, it will be vastly more expensive than many of the houses in the neighborhood, which have values in the low $100,000s.

The house, to be built during the next year at 467-471 Anniston Drive, where two ranch houses recently stood, is a sanitary sewer pump station.

The pump station designed like a house, with its faux brick windows to deter vandals, is a first for Lexington. Mark York, the city's environmental spokesman, said a barn design is being considered for another pump station project.

The sanitary sewer pump station is part of a number of water projects that will affect the Deep Springs, Bryan Station, Hermitage Hills and Dixie neighborhoods during the next few years, including a storm-water detention basin to be built in the field behind the pump station.

Council member Kevin Stinnett said during a meeting in November with area residents: "The neighbors wanted it all brick to match in with the surroundings. We wanted ... it not to be an eyesore."

Pat Rabits, who lives near Bryan Station Road and has long worked with the Bryan Station Neighborhood Association, said she is glad the projects are finally starting.

"We've heard forever about the new pump station out there," she said.