(Boston Globe) — Renovations to the historic African Meeting House on Beacon Hill have received a boost in the form of a multimillion dollar federal grant, museum officials announced yesterday. The $4 million in federal stimulus funds will allow curators to finish restoring the building on Joy Street, designated a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service, to its original 19th-century state, according to officials of the Museum of African American History, which owns the building.

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