Teahouse
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The Teahouse
During the summers of 2015 and 2016, friends, family, and Studio members came together to build a sleeping porch on a remote Maine island where Brendan spends time each summer helping run a wooden boat building program. The 10 foot square building, named the Teahouse, was inspired by a letter Brendan's father wrote in 1983 to a local builder inquiring about building a small teahouse on the shores of an old ice pond on the property, where islanders harvested ice blocks to sell to passing ships in the 1800s.
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The letter from Brendan's father told the story of how the teahouse would be a thank you gift for the couple who sold the land to the Ravenhills, since they had always imagined that the forested banks of the ice pond would be a lovely place to have a spot of tea. Nothing ever came of that original letter, and Brendan's father passed away some years later. But 30 years on, the idea of pond-side teahouse finally became a reality.