{"id":9336,"date":"2009-06-16T18:44:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T23:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2021-03-27T00:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T05:30:22","slug":"framingham-history-center-wins-100k-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2009\/06\/16\/around-town\/framingham-history-center-wins-100k-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"FRAMINGHAM HISTORY CENTER WINS $100,000 GRANT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9337\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9337\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/edgellfront09-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/edgellfront09-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/edgellfront09.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civil War era Edgell Memorial Library located in Framingham Centre.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> -- Annie Murphy, Executive Director of the Framingham History Center announced that she received word of a a $100,000 grant from American Express to restore the Edgell Memorial Library's windows.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2.5 million people voted in the Partners In Preservation competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Edgell Library placed<!--more--> 4th out of 25, with in an estimated 175,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>This is remarkable given our \"dark horse\" status among so many notable Boston institutions, including the Paul Revere house and the Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>The Framingham History Center is hosting the exhibition \"Windows on Edgell's Past, Present, and Future\" and will be open Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. and Wednesday, June 17th from 5 to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, visit the Framingham History Center online at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.framinghamhistory.org\/\">www.framinghamhistory.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9338\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/edgellwindow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edgell Memorial Library, Framingham MA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8212; Annie Murphy, Executive Director of the Framingham History Center announced that she received word of a a $100,000 grant from American Express to restore the Edgell Memorial Library&#8217;s windows. Nearly 2.5 million people voted in the Partners In Preservation competition. The Edgell Library placed&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2009\/06\/16\/around-town\/framingham-history-center-wins-100k-grant\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[870,2971,356,3312,3288,4220],"class_list":["post-9336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-town","tag-annie-murphy","tag-civil-war","tag-edgell-memorial-library","tag-framingham-history","tag-framingham-history-center","tag-partners-in-preservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9340,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions\/9340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}