Among them are three artisans—Jackson Dubois, Michael Burrey, and Hank Silver—who were tapped by the French government to ...

Hank Silver, a carpenter from Massachusetts, works on roof trusses for the nave of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral. Courtesy of Hank Silver "It's maybe a bit of a maybe a controversial point to say ...

Hank Silver, a carpenter from Massachusetts, works on roof trusses for the nave of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral. / Credit: Courtesy of Hank Silver.

For Hank Silver, a carpenter from Massachusetts who is one of dozens of Americans to have worked on the cathedral’s restoration, Notre Dame’s reopening will be “bittersweet. ...

Will Gusakov from Vermont and Hank Silver from Massachusetts worked with the group "Carpenters Without Borders." They employed the same techniques that were ...

The American carpenter "Impossible." That was American carpenter Hank Silver's first thought when he joined the reconstruction effort — in a workshop in Normandy, northern France, that was ...

As the cathedral reopens its doors this Sunday after a massive $737 million restoration project, here’s an up-close look at how three American artisans who were part of this rare moment in history.

As the cathedral reopens its doors this Sunday after a massive $737 million restoration project, here’s an up-close look at how three American artisans who were part of this rare moment in history.

Among them are three artisans—Jackson Dubois, Michael Burrey, and Hank Silver—who were tapped by the French government to help resurrect this 860-year-old icon of architecture and French history.

As the cathedral reopens its doors this Sunday after a massive $737 million restoration project, here’s an up-close look at how three American artisans who were part of this rare moment in history.