Old South Meeting House/Shutterstock image via f11photo

My partner in crime Nate Boroyan has done an absolutely PHUH-nominal job keeping you eager readers updated on the latest Millennium Tower news. Without stepping on anyone’s toes, here’s another fun tidbit of Millennium news: Millennium Partners, the company building the skyscraper upon the remains of Filene’s in Downtown Crossing, is helping to restore the neighboring and historic Old South Meeting House.

According to a Thursday report from the Boston Business Journal, Millennium Partners is putting $225,000 the Old South Meeting House’s way for improvements aimed at allowing the museum to function more smoothly in contemporary Boston.

Upgrades include “enhanced energy conservation, new interior lighting and a digital sound system to support the many programs and performances,” that use the Meeting House as an event venue, according to the BBJ.

“Old South is our closest institutional and historically important neighbor,” said Anthony Pengaro, a principal of Millennium Partners, Boston, to the BBJ. “Helping to ensure downtown’s diversity and preserving its rich history are a critical part of what we do.”

Though perhaps without the same level of notoriety as the Faneuil Hall or the Old North Church, the Old South Meeting House’s place in history is solidified as being the venue where revolutionary Bostonians passionately discussed the imposition of unfair British taxes, which ultimately led to the Boston Tea Party close by what’s now Atlantic Wharf.

According to the Boston Globe in late-August 2013, the Meeting House received $800,000 in federal funding to upgrade “exterior woodwork, windows, doors, and [the] steeple. A fresh coat of paint will be applied to some areas.”