In May 1982, Fall River lost its own iconic church, Notre Dame de Lourdes. "They said hurry, there's a fire in the attic!" said Masse, who was church sexton there for 33 years.

In this May 11,1982 photo, the Notre Dame de Lourdes Church burns in Fall River, Mass. The cathedral was completed in 1891 and was in the midst of a $1 million renovation when the fire occurred.

The church, built of Fall River granite to resemble its namesake in Paris, ... Notre Dame de Lourdes held its Mass in French. In November 1884 after its French pastor retired, ...

FALL RIVER — Early in the afternoon of May 11, 1982, Fall River’s Flint neighborhood lost its own Notre Dame. A worker doing repairs atop the Notre Dame de Lourdes Church said he smelled smoke.

FALL RIVER — The former Notre Dame de Lourdes School near Lafayette Park will undergo redevelopment with plans to convert the historic building into a 48-unit market-rate apartment complex.

Several key events will lead to the grand reopening of the iconic Notre-Dame de Paris in December, more than five years after a fire destroyed a significant portion of the structure.. With just 23 ...

Fall River lost its own Notre Dame nearly forty years ago. NBC 10 News was there as an inferno consumed the historic Notre Dame de Lourdes Church on Eastern Avenue on May 11, 1982. Strong winds ...

As Notre Dame cathedral in Paris recovers from a devastating fire , a Massachusetts city is remembering the eerily similar blaze that consumed their historic Notre Dame church nearly 40 years ago.