IN THE NEWS
December 2024
Michael Burrey, a restoration carpentry teacher at the North Bennet Street School, brought his woodworking expertise to the Paris landmark after its disastrous fire.
December 2024
Jackson DuBois discusses his work on the Notre-Dame de Paris spire, including what has been preserved and what modern specifications have been made.
December 2024
Rachel Silva interviews Jackson DuBois and Michael Burrey about their journey to reconstructing Notre-Dame de Paris in France and their personal and career histories.
December 2024
Agnès Poirier travels to the Loire Valley to see the work of two American carpenters helping to rebuild the Notre-Dame Cathedral spire: Jackson DuBois and Michael Burrey, representatives of the Handshouse Studio: Notre Dame Project. They are a part of a cross-cultural army of craftspeople who have been painstakingly reconstructing Notre-Dame.
June 2022
Journal of the Timber Framers Guild; Includes articles by Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project participants and an image of the truss on exhibtion at the National Building Museum.
April 2022
Marie Brown, executive director of Handshouse Studio, explains the different trusses in “La Forêt,” the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris that burned in the 2019 fire.
March 2022
Timber Framing: Journal of the Timber Framers Guild, March, 2022. Includes Articles by Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project participants and Handshouse executive director Marie Brown.
September 2021
A full-scale replica of one of the oldest timber trusses destroyed during the ruinous April 2019 fire at Notre Dame de Paris cathedral recently concluded a several-week showing at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
November 2024
Jackson DuBois speaks about his experience in France, the specifics of his work, the significance of his name, and his excitement and nerves regarding recreating gothic features.
December 2024
BBC News World Service: Weekend covers Jackson DuBois’ experience in France in a brief interview in their weekly podcast, titled “South Korean President faces vote of confidence.”
November 2024
In a live interview with Eleni Giokos, Michael Burrey discusses his work on the Notre-Dame Cathedral spire, noting the importance of using traditional building techniques to reconstruct the spire accurately. He reflects on his personal connection to the cathedral, both in his work with teaching preservation carpentry and his family history.
View on the Handshouse website
May 2022
Members of Congress visited the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, viewing our Gwoździec Synagogue reconstruction!
April 2022
Rick and Laura Brown during the Handshouse Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project build at Catholic University campus in Washington, DC August 2021.
March 2022
The Handshouse Notre-Dame Truss Project is on exhibition at the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta, GA until April 25th. Come see the full-scale truss!
August 23, 2021
On a Thursday afternoon in August, architecture student Juan Soto was part of a team of more than 50 architects, carpenters, and students pulling ropes to raise a hand-built, full-scale truss on the campus of The Catholic University of America.
July 2024
Agnès Poirer interviews Jackson DuBois and Michael Burrey on-site in France during their time assisting in the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris.
December 2024
WKTV channel 2 news covers Jackson DuBois’ journey from his small town of 800 people to working to restore a monument visited by 12 million people per year.
November 2024
In a live interview with Richard Quest, Jackson DuBois reflects on his time spent rebuilding the quatrefoils and spire of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, discussing the precision required for each piece, the interdisciplinary team who worked to rebuild and restore the monument, and the newfound desire for young people to learn traditional craft skills.
View on the Handshouse website
April 2022
Handshouse Studio re/creates lost history through the Notre-Dame Project, a hands-on experience that allows students to learn history in a unique format.
Feb 2022
The Handshouse Studio team raising our Notre-Dame de Paris truss reconstruction on the National Mall August 5th, 2021, as an exhibition for one of Handshouse’s innovative projects.
September 2021
Timber Framing: Journal of the Timber Framers Guild, September, 2021. Includes articles by Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project participants about their experience creating the truss replica.
August 16, 2021
In the final pages of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when Quasimodo scrambles through the rafters of his lair, Victor Hugo wrote in 1831 of the “prodigious timber-work so dense it was called ‘the forest.’”
August 3, 2021
Cardinal Wilton Gregory and the team of students, carpenters, architects and crafts people gently pull a truss into its vertical position on the lawn of the mall at The Catholic University of America.
August 6, 2021
Marie Brown was among those who watched the fire in 2019, stunned. Before the flames were even extinguished, she was on the phone, strategizing about how to help rebuild it with others connected to Handshouse Studio, which she leads as executive director.
August 6, 2021
After months of preparation, the campus played host for two weeks to a 75-person crew that took logs transported from the mountains of Virginia, cut them into timbers and assembled the truss using tools and techniques employed nearly a millennium ago.
August 10, 2021
A faithfully reconstructed, full-scale replica of one of the oldest timber trusses destroyed during the April 2019 fire at the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral is now on view at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., as part of the museum’s scaled-back 2021 Summer Block Party.
August 3, 2021
Catholic University (CUA) students and Handshouse Studio host a ceremony to hand raise a full-scale truss of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC., on Tuesday, August 3, 2021.
August 2, 2021
Catholic University to recreate Notre Dame de Paris truss with medieval methods…
The 10-day project will produce a full-sized replica of Truss #6, which will then tour Washington D.C. on exhibition.
July 30, 2021
Visitors to Catholic University’s campus this week saw an unusual site on the University Lawn: a team of 40 carpenters and framers using axes to construct a large triangular shape out of 30 white oak logs.
July 21, 2021
Craftsmen in US use medieval techniques to reconstruct Notre Dame roof support
A full-scale truss fit for the Paris cathedral will be built in Washington, DC this summer as part of a teaching project by Handshouse Studio
July 26. 2021
It worked 800 years ago: CUA students building replica of Notre Dame roof truss using medieval techniques
Aug. 12, 2019 The local news in Philadelphia featured a segment on the Gourd Banjo Project exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution
Sept. 1, 2019 One Impulse from a Vernal Wood Around the bend, two storm-downed trees have been milled and reconstituted with mortise-and-tenon joinery in a zig-zag pattern, using the stumps as anchor points.
July 12, 2019 A 'surprise' in the woods…
Couple energize Chesterwood with forest-based contemporary sculpture exhibit
May 13, 2019 MassArt students create toys for elephants at New Bedford zoo
April 18, 2017 Trojan Horse replica takes shape at Norwell’s Handshouse Studio