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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Clinton Church Restoration has been awarded a $117,000 capital grant from MassDevelopment and the Mass Cultural Council, part of a round of Cultural Facilities Fund.
The funds will be used to help complete architectural and engineering plans for the African American cultural heritage center the nonprofit is creating in the deconsecrated church in downtown Great Barrington.
An interpretive display installed in May sits before the historic Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church at 9 Elm Court in Great Barrington. Community members formed Clinton Church Restoration to rehabilitate the historic Black church, which W. E. B. Du Bois attended as a child, and repurpose it as a heritage site and visitor center. The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area on Thursday announced a grant of nearly $500,000 that will go toward structural work on the building.BEN GARVER â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
GREAT BARRINGTON â The effort to restore the former building of a historic Black church is âa multi-phase, multi-million dollar project thatâs going to take years,â says Eugenie Sills, interim executive director for the nonprofit Clinton Church Restoration.
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