Using only four-by-five-inch sheet film and natural light, photographer Paul Wainwright collected and presents images, both internal and external, of New England's remaining colonial meetinghouses.

The story of early New England can be told in words; but more elequent than words are those surviving historians, its old houses. Inextricably tied up with houses which still grace the countryside are stirring and intimate reminders of the early history of this country. Furthermore, they furnish a fascinating chapter in architectural history. Finally, many of them have been recused and restored, and their doors thrown hospitably open to the public....