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has been named victorious in a bid for $100,000 to help preserve and maintain its historic building.

National Trust for Historic Preservation 

, is giving out a total of $15.5 million over ten years, focusing on a different community each year.

This year the focus is on preserving buildings in the Twin Cities. Twenty-five historic sites were named as finalists for the $100,000 grant, and the voting public got to pick the winner.

Officials with the Basilica say the funds will be used to make repairs to the 

 of the Basilica, including the repair of these rooms' decorative ceilings, limestone walls and damaged plaster while also restoring the historic paint and gold leaf found throughout the structure.

A total of $900,000 in additional grants will be awarded on November 9th to a number of the other Twin Cities participating sites, after review by American Express, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the advisory committee comprised of Twin Cities area civic and preservation leaders, co-chaired by Mayor R.T. Rybak of Minneapolis and Mayor Chris Coleman of St. Paul.

The other participating sites are listed below:

•	American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis

•	Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, Fridley

•	Christ Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill, Saint Paul

•	Emerge Career and Technology Center (Old North Branch Library), Minneapolis

•	Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Belle Plaine

•	Fort Snelling Upper Post, Building 67, Unincorporated Hennepin County

•	Harriet Tubman Center East (Former Saint Paul's Monastery), Minneapolis

•	Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis

•	Minnesota State Fair Grandstand, Saint Paul

•	Minnesota Transportation Museum (Jackson Street Roundhouse), Saint Paul

•	Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery, Minneapolis

•	Washington County Historic Courthouse, Stillwater

•	Waterford Iron Bridge, Waterford Township

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