A $100,000 preservation grant will fund replacement of 12 doors and more than 600 windowpanes on the handcrafted Paragon Carousel, one of only 150 such carousels left in the country. Its safety features will also be upgraded.
(Jonathan Wiggs/ Globe Staff)
Grant will keep Hull carousel spinning
25 historic sites in Greater Boston to share $1 million
A $100,000 preservation grant will fund replacement of 12 doors and more than 600 windowpanes on the handcrafted Paragon Carousel, one of only 150 such carousels left in the country. Its safety features will also be upgraded.
(Jonathan Wiggs/ Globe Staff)
For more than 30 summers, Sandra Swartz would spend summers in Hull, where she would ride the wooden carousel at Nantasket Beach. (Full article: 675 words)
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