Old North Church is both an active congregation and one of the most high-profile tourist destinations in Boston. The craftsmen hope to reveal four of the original angels by April, 2025. Nancy Gonzales ...

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels, at top right, adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church in the North End neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston. Charles Krupa / AP ...

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church in the North End neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston. – AP Photo/Charles Krupa ...

300-year-old angels were painted over at Old North Church. An effort is underway to restore them. Paint conservators are restoring 300-year-old murals of angels that have been hidden since 1912.

Conservator Corrine Long restores nearly 300-year-old painted angels on walls of Old North Church in Boston. (Steven Senne/AP) Straddling the scaffolding high up in a historic Boston church ...

Conservators Corrine Long and Gianfranco Pocobene climb down scaffolding after restoring 300-year-old painted angels in Old North Church, Boston. AP Corrine Long touches up one of the angels.

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels, at top right, adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church on Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston. On a recent day, the church was mostly empty except ...

Conservator Corrine Long, of Dover, N.H., works to restore nearly 300-year-old painted angels on the walls of the Old North Church in Boston.

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels, at top right, adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church in the North End neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston. (AP) ...

Centuries-old angels uncovered at Boston church made famous by Paul Revere Conservator Corrine Long, of Dover, N.H., restores nearly 300-year-old painted angels on walls of Old North Church ...

The painted angels — with round childlike faces and wings — once were among the defining features of the Old North Church when they were painted around 1730.

By MICHAEL CASEY BOSTON (AP) — Straddling the scaffolding high up in a historic Boston church, murals conservator Gianfranco Pocobene is working to uncover eight angels that were hidden under… ...