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Estimates are at $1 billion for the restoration. They are hoping to have the spire installed by the end of the year and for everything else to be completed by the end of next year.
They built a set of “bleachers” in front. What I like is that it’s all wood construction with solid wood.
Huge project. Here is one of two construction offices:
Various views:
Looks so odd without the roof and spire.
Spalling on the buttresses:
The little rectangular holes are original to the building. It’s where wooden scaffolding was inserted during construction:
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This is a billion dollar restoration of a cathedral with a history spanning centuries and untold fortunes in monies to keep it going and to glorify God. I spent an hour last week in a small adobe church on the approach to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and it was a lovely, personal, and intimate experience. The decorations and furnishings were simple, to honor God. The whole collaborated to make the setting one of the memorable mind scapes that lingers for long afterwards. I’m not religious, but the experiece was calming and rewarding – easily one of the nicest experiences on the road trip. Notre Dame’s scale elicits a sense of “Oh, wow”. Sante Fe’s adobe church made me think, “Oh, my”. “