Wender·Vista
Canterbury and Enfield Shaker Villages are white-clapboard meetinghouse-and-dwelling clusters
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileNew Hampshire
in central New Hampshire, fifty miles apart north of Concord

Canterbury and Enfield Shaker Villages are white-clapboard meetinghouse-and-dwelling clusters

— — the white the meetinghouse keeps.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“Two Shaker villages in central New Hampshire, about fifty miles apart. Canterbury, gathered into order in 1792, holds twenty-five original buildings on six hundred ninety-four acres above the Merrimack valley. Enfield, gathered in 1793, sits on the eastern shore of Mascoma Lake under Mount Assurance. White clapboard meetinghouses, plain dwellings, the long unbroken eaves the order kept. Both are museums now. From the studio.

from the studio
Canterbury and Enfield Shaker Villages are white-clapboard meetinghouse-and-dwelling clusters
— bring it home

Canterbury and Enfield Shaker Villages are white-clapboard meetinghouse-and-dwelling clusters, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— about Canterbury and Enfield Shaker Villages are white-clapboard meetinghouse-and-dwelling clusters

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

The Canterbury and Enfield Shaker Villages are two of eighteen Shaker communities formally gathered between 1787 and 1836 in the United States. Canterbury Shaker Village, gathered in 1792, sits on 694 acres in Canterbury, New Hampshire, fifteen miles north of Concord. Enfield Shaker Village, gathered in 1793, sits on the eastern shore of Mascoma Lake in Enfield, under Mount Assurance. Both are listed as National Historic Landmarks. Canterbury operates as a non-profit museum on its original ground; Enfield's Great Stone Dwelling anchors the Enfield Shaker Museum.

— the stone

Both villages share a building language of white-painted clapboard over heavy post-and-beam frames, broad chimneys, and the unbroken horizontal eaves the Shakers preferred over decorative cornices. The Canterbury Meetinghouse, built in 1792, is the second-oldest Shaker meetinghouse still standing. The Enfield Great Stone Dwelling, completed in 1841, rises six stories of dressed granite and was the largest Shaker dwelling ever built. Plain windows, separated entries for brethren and sisters, and unornamented interior trim mark the order's discipline at both sites.

— the visit

Canterbury Shaker Village operates as a museum from mid-May through October, with guided tours of the 1792 Meetinghouse, the 1793 Dwelling House, and the surrounding gardens. The Enfield Shaker Museum, anchored by the Great Stone Dwelling, opens year-round on seasonal hours and runs an inn within the dwelling. Both sites lie within ninety minutes' drive of Concord, New Hampshire, and about fifty miles apart by road. Admission fees support preservation. The grounds are quiet by intent.

— where
United States · Merrimack and Grafton Counties, New Hampshire
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
24 km S
Concord, New Hampshire
state capital
at the lake
Mascoma Lake
lake
1 km E
Mount Assurance
mountain
N
Canterbury and Enfield Shaker Villages are white-clapboard meetinghouse-and-dwelling clusters
Concord, New Hampshire
Mascoma Lake
Mount Assurance
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Canterbury and Enfield Shaker Villages are white-clapboard meetinghouse-and-dwelling clusters — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a celibate Protestant communal sect founded in England in 1747 and established in the United States by Mother Ann Lee in 1774. They emphasised confession, equality, plain craft, and shared property.

Canterbury was gathered into formal Shaker order in 1792 and Enfield in 1793. Both grew through the early nineteenth century to several hundred members and declined steadily after 1860. Both are now National Historic Landmarks.

White-painted clapboard, plain post-and-beam frames, broad chimneys, separated entries for brethren and sisters, and the unbroken horizontal eaves the order preferred over decorative cornices. Interior trim is plain and storage is built into the walls.

A six-story dressed-granite dwelling completed in 1841, the largest Shaker dwelling ever built. It housed up to three hundred Shakers and now anchors the Enfield Shaker Museum as a preserved building and inn.

No. The Canterbury community closed in 1992 with the death of Sister Ethel Hudson. The Enfield community closed in 1923 and the property passed to the LaSalette Missionaries. A small community remains at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

Yes. The villages are about fifty miles apart by road, an hour and a quarter of driving. Canterbury opens mid-May through October; Enfield opens year-round on seasonal hours.

— about the piece in your home

Few traditions speak as clearly to the plain-design sensibility as the Shakers. A Small or Medium of the Canterbury or Enfield meetinghouse carries the order's white-clapboard discipline into the room.

Plain-design, Quaker-modern, and warm-minimalist interiors hold the piece naturally. The whites and greens read against unstained oak, painted milk-finish furniture, and old pine floors.

Yes. Warm-minimalism and Japandi both draw from Shaker proportions and unornamented surfaces. A white-clapboard tile in stained-glass colour sits naturally beside that material language.

A single Large reads cleanly above a console or narrow sofa. Above a full sofa, a 4-tile Mural carries the meetinghouse and its grounds; a 9-tile Mural opens the village across a longer wall.

Yes. Dura Satin or Matte holds in splash zones and showers. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure and does not lift in steam.

Microfibre cloth and clean water. No abrasive pads, no ammonia, no solvent cleaners. The thin glossy finish wipes clean and needs no polish.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is painted in-house in the studio's stained-glass and alcohol-ink visual language. We do not license images and the work appears nowhere else.

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