Preservationists to be honored by New Jersey Landmarks Conservancy

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And among the recipients:

* To St. Michael Roman Catholic Church, Parish of the Resurrection, 252 Ninth St., Hamilton Park Historic District, and the legendary Peragallo Pipe Organ Company of Paterson for the spectacular restoration of the church's mammoth circa-1925 Ernest M. Skinner pipe organ. Guided by the Very Rev. Victor P. Kennedy, music director Roxanne Clark and organist Eric Fahner, parishioners successfully applied for and won nearly $400,000 in grant money from the Joseph Bradley Foundation, unveiling and dedicating the organ in early 2012 after five years of painstaking restoration. The parish, which dates to the Civil War era and is housed in an 1873-'76 edifice designed and erected by the famous Irish architect Patrick Keely, is also being recognized for its decade-long drive to restore moisture-damaged interior decorations, including Munich-manufactured memorial stained glass windows, illuminated plaster walls and Italian Renaissance-inspired murals.

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