PLYMOUTH, MASS. (WHDH) – A local architect is helping to shape history — the Plymouth artisan played a pivotal role in helping restore the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after much of it was destroyed in a fast-moving fire in 2019.
Michael Burrey, who teaches at the North Bennet School in Boston’s North End, said he and his students were shocked to see the devastation the fire caused to the historic landmark.
“When Notre Dame caught fire one of my students came into the bench room and said, ‘Notre Dame is burning,’ and we all tuned in on our phones and watched it it was very emotional in the bench room that day and we were all dismayed at that loss of history and knowledge and we were all asking what we could do to help out,” he recalled…