Wender·Vista
Canterbury Shaker Village
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileNew Hampshire
in Canterbury, on a hill fifteen miles north of Concord

Canterbury Shaker Village

— — the white the meetinghouse holds.

— 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

“A Shaker village on a quiet hill in Canterbury, New Hampshire, gathered into order in 1792. Twenty-five original buildings stand on six hundred ninety-four acres: the 1792 Meetinghouse, the 1793 Dwelling House, the schoolhouse, the laundry, the medicinal herb garden. The last Canterbury Shaker, Sister Ethel Hudson, died here in 1992 at age ninety-six. The grounds keep her quiet. From the studio.

from the studio
Canterbury Shaker Village
— bring it home

Canterbury Shaker Village, 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 Shaker Village

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

Canterbury Shaker Village sits on 694 acres in the town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, fifteen miles north of Concord. The community was gathered into formal Shaker order in 1792 and operated continuously for two hundred years. Twenty-five original Shaker buildings remain on their original sites, the largest collection of original Shaker structures at any single village. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 and operates today as a non-profit museum. The grounds include medicinal and culinary herb gardens, ponds, fields, and the original mill brook.

— the stone

The 1792 Meetinghouse is the oldest building on the grounds and the second-oldest Shaker meetinghouse standing in the United States. The 1793 Dwelling House, the long building behind it, housed up to one hundred members under a single roof. Both are white-painted clapboard over heavy post-and-beam frames, with broad chimneys and the unbroken horizontal eaves the order preferred. Separated entries for brethren and sisters mark each principal building. Interior trim is plain; built-in cupboards and peg rails carry the storage work.

— the visit

The museum opens mid-May through October with guided tours of the Meetinghouse, the Dwelling House, the schoolhouse, the laundry, and the herb gardens. The village sits about fifteen miles north of Concord on Shaker Road, an hour and a half from Boston. Admission supports preservation of the original buildings. The grounds are quiet by intent and the museum asks visitors to keep voices low near the meetinghouse. The on-site Shaker Box Lunch serves seasonal fare with herbs from the gardens.

— where
United States · Canterbury, Merrimack County, 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
80 km NW
Enfield Shaker Village
Shaker village
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Canterbury Shaker Village
Concord, New Hampshire
Enfield Shaker Village
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Canterbury Shaker Village — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

The community was gathered into formal Shaker order in 1792 on land donated by the Whitcher family. It operated continuously for two hundred years and closed with the death of Sister Ethel Hudson in 1992.

The village sits on 694 acres in the town of Canterbury, fifteen miles north of Concord. Twenty-five original Shaker buildings stand on their original sites, the largest such collection at any single Shaker village.

The 1792 Meetinghouse is the oldest structure on the grounds and the second-oldest Shaker meetinghouse standing in the United States. It served as the spiritual centre of the community for two centuries.

Sister Ethel Hudson, who died at the village in September 1992 at age ninety-six. With her death the Canterbury community formally closed. A small community remains in active life at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

Yes. The village was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its unbroken architectural integrity and its significance to the history of American religious communalism.

The medicinal and culinary herb gardens follow the original Shaker plant lists and bed layouts. Canterbury Shakers operated a substantial medicinal-herb trade in the nineteenth century, supplying pharmacies across New England.

— about the piece in your home

Canterbury is the closest a visitor can come to a Shaker community as it actually stood. A Small or Medium of the Meetinghouse and its grounds reads as a quiet salute to the plain-design tradition.

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

Yes. Warm-minimalism draws directly from Shaker proportions, unornamented surfaces, and built-in storage. A meetinghouse tile in stained-glass colour sits naturally with that material vocabulary.

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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