Sandown, New Hampshire (GPS location N42° 55′ 58″, W71° 11′ 9″)
The meetinghouse at Sandown New Hampshire was built in 1773,
and is an extremely fine example of an original meetinghouse.
Its interior and exterior both look like the Puritains just walked out of it yesterday.
There is something moving about a structure
that has long outlived the community to which it was familiar,
surviving lonesomely in a new age,
the life of which it has no part.
The ornamental woodwork around the doors is more elaborate than in
other meetinghouses of this type.
Religious services were discontinued in 1834,
but town meeting continued to be held there until 1929.
It had fallen into neglect, and it is said that
students from Phillips Exeter ransacked it in the 1890s.
However, it has been completely restored, and is very well maintained
by the Old Meetinghouse Association.
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