Glencairn began as the private home of Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn before becoming a museum of religious art and history in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and this film traces how that transformation happened. It starts with Emanuel Swedenborg, the eighteenth-century theologian whose writings gave rise to the New Church, then follows the community he inspired through the founding of the Academy of the New Church and Bryn Athyn College in the 1870s and the establishment of the town of Bryn Athyn itself in the 1890s. Aerial photography and archival footage cover the construction of Bryn Athyn Cathedral, dedicated in 1919, and of Glencairn, built between 1928 and 1939 as the Pitcairn family residence. The film gives real attention to Raymond Pitcairn's art collecting through the 1920s and 30s, the medieval sculpture and stained glass he assembled that eventually filled the house he built. Narrated by Chris Waelchli, with a score performed partly by the Glencairn Horns, the film moves from Swedenborg's ideas to the stone and glass that ended up representing them.