Handshouse is a non-profit, innovative, educational organization that creates adventurous hands-on projects through community-service, building projects with partners around the world as a way to illuminate history, understand science, and perpetuate the arts.
Handshouse Studio Notre-Dame Project Representatives Michael Burrey Preservation Carpentry faculty of the North Bennet Street School (Boston, MA), and Jackson DuBois, Executive Director of the Timber Framers Guild (Alstead, NH), pictured as members of the Asselin Inc team with portions of the Notre-Dame de Paris Spire reconstruction they completed. Seen here at the Asselin shop in Thouars, France.
Mark Your calendars!
Notre-Dame Project Presentation: THE GIFT OF REPAIR
How a gesture of global solidarity among makers became an embodied act of reconstruction across borders through the Handshouse Studio: Notre-Dame Project
TUESDAY, MAY 7TH, 2024: BOSTON, MA
SPACE IS VERY LIMITED!
Notre-Dame Project: La Forêt Model Project Exhibition
Notre-Dame Project: La Forêt Model Project Exhibition
Handshouse Studio has expanded participation in the Notre-Dame Project through hands-on workshops collaboratively completing a 1:10 scale white oak model of the intricate wooden roof structure known as known in French as “La Forêt” (“The Forest”) that once stood above Notre-Dame de Paris.
Notre-Dame Project: La Forêt Model will be on exhibition at
North Bennet Street School
May 3rd- August 10th, 2024
150 North Street, Boston MA 02109
Hours: Mon–Fri from 9:00am to 5:00pm, Saturdays 10:00am to 2:00pm
Guided Tours: Tuesdays at 11:00am
Handshouse Projects are possible from the Support of our community!
Notre-Dame Project, La Forêt Model. A WORK IN PROGRESS: Model of the Notre-Dame de Paris roof framework, 1:10 scale, white oak, pictured here in the workshop at the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, GA, Fall 2022.
Handshouse Studio is a 501c(3) non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible. Our tax ID number is 04-3715575.
To see or find out how to become part of the growing list of the Notre-Dame Project participating institutions, participants, and project donors click here.
Handshouse Studio cofounder, Rick Brown, was invited to TEDx Natick in January 2020
to speak about the unique teaching philosophy—he and Handshouse cofounder, Laura Brown, developed together—that fueled the creation of Handshouse Studio.
Projects in the News/
Timber Framing: Journal of the Timber Framers Guild, June, 2022/ Articles by Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project from participants.
Atlanta Constitution Journal/ The Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project on display at the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta, GA April 2022
Smithsonian Magazine/ The Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project at Catholic University campus in Washington, DC August 2021
Georgia Bulletin/ The Notre-Dame Truss Project exhibition at the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta, GA until April 25th. Photo by Johnathon Kelso
ABC News Chronicle 5/ The Handshouse Studio team raising our Notre-Dame de Paris truss reconstruction on the National Mall August 5th, 2021
Members of Congress visited the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland/ Viewing our Gwoździec Synagogue reconstruction!
The Mariner/ “La Forêt” Model Workshop, part of the Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project offered Handshouse Studio in Norwell, MA March 2022
Timber Framing: Journal of the Timber Framers Guild, March, 2022/ Articles by Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project from participants
New York Magazine, CURBED/ The Handshouse Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project workshop in Washington, DC. Photo: Greg Kahn/GRAIN
Timber Framing: Journal of the Timber Framers Guild, September, 2021/ Articles by Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project from participants
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews/
Handshouse Studio’s reconstruction of the Gwoździec Synagogue ceiling painting and timber roof are on display as part of the CORE exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Warsaw, Poland
The Handshouse Studio Bushnell Turtle Revolutionary War Submarine reconstruction on display in the front lobby of the new International Spy Museum. Check it out!
Washington, DC at L'Enfant Plaza
There’s always room for more hands!
Newly designed toys will be put to the test by colossal clients at Buttonwood Park Zoo SUNDAY May 5th
Handshouse Studio Toys for Animals participants are delivering a newly designed set of toys for beloved elephants, Ruth and Emily, tomorrow! We are marking the 14th anniversary of this remarkable collaboration and want to share it with the community!