Visitors to the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts, have apparently entertained angels unawares. Eight paintings of ...

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

The Old Church is famous for hanging two lanterns from its steeple on the night of Revere’s 1775 ride to warn of the British ...

The angels were painted in the early 18th century but painted over in 1912 as part of a renovation of the Old North Church.

Straddling the scaffolding high up in a historic Boston church, murals conservator Gianfranco Pocobene is working to uncover ...

Mural conservators are working to uncover angels hidden under layers of paint for more than a century at the Boston church ...

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