Smith Memorial Library is a member of the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System, located on Bestor Plaza on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.
Maple Springs is a hamlet located within the Town of Ellery in Chautauqua County, New York, United States at an elevation of 1,312 feet (400 m) above sea level. It is situated along the east shore of Chautauqua Lake, between the villages of Mayville and Bemus Point. New York State Route 430 passes through the hamlet. The postal code is 14756, and its permanent population as of the 2010 United States Census was 110, with an average age of 49.3 years of age living in 136 housing units.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chautauqua County, New York.
Midway State Park, located in Maple Springs, New York, was established in 1898 by the Jamestown & Lake Erie Railway as a picnic ground. Today, it is recognized as the fifteenth-oldest continually operating amusement park in the United States, and the fifth-oldest remaining trolley park of the thirteen still operating in the United States.
Ashville is a hamlet near the junction of state routes 474 and 394, on the line between the towns of North Harmony and Busti in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. It is the location of the Smith Bly House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The hamlet is located at an elevation of 1358 ft above sea level.
The Lewis Miller Cottage is a historic house at Whitfield and Vincent Avenues, on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, New York. Built in 1874, it was the residence of Lewis Miller, founder and leader of the Chautauqua movement. It was named a National Historic Landmark in 1965 for its association with Miller, and is included in the larger Chautauqua Institution Historic District, also a National Historic Landmark.
Samuel Frederick Nixon was an American businessman and politician.
The Chautauqua Auditorium, built in 1903, is a large historic icosagonal (20-sided) wooden chautauqua meeting hall located at Forest Park and North East 9th Street, Shelbyville, Illinois, United States. On January 30, 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Atwater-Stone House is a historic house located at 29 Water Street in Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York.
Harriet Campbell-Taylor House is a historic home located at Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. It is a two-story brick Italianate and Greek Revival style dwelling built in 1850.
The York-Skinner House is a historic house located at Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame Gothic Revival-style dwelling built in 1866. The current structure incorporated an earlier dwelling built before 1833.
McMahan Homestead, also known as Landmark Acres, is a historic home located in Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. It is a two-story, five bay wood frame dwelling built in about 1820. The home features a semicircular portico with a denticulated cornice and corinthian columns that was added in the 20th century. On this property is a barn dating from the early 1800s. The home was constructed by Chautauqua County's first settler, Col. James McMahan, who came to Westfield in 1802 from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The property is the oldest settled property in Chautauqua county with an original deed from the Holland Land Company for a large portion of Chautauqua County and has the oldest landmark in the county. Chautauqua County celebrated its 100th anniversary, 1902, on the front lawn of the McMahan homestead. In 2002 Chautauqua county celebrated its 200th anniversary also on the property.
The Samuel F. Nixon Homestead', or simply the Nixon Homestead, is a historic home located in the Village of Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. The original house was built in 1856 and subsequently expanded in about 1890 to its current size and style.
Welch Factory Building No. 1 is a historic grape juice factory located at Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. It was built in 1897 and expanded in 1899 and 1903, to be an 8-bay wide, 10-bay deep rectangular building. It is the oldest extant structure associated with the Welch's company.
Mayville is a historic train station located at Mayville in Chautauqua County, New York. It was constructed in 1925, for the Pennsylvania Railroad and is a 1+1⁄2-story, brick structure with an overhanging hipped roof. The building measures 117 by 29 feet. The station had were Pennsylvania Railroad trains on a route north to Dunkirk and then to Buffalo. To the south, the routed went to Corry and Oil City and then to Pittsburgh. From the station, travelers to resorts along Chautauqua Lake made connections to interurbans and large fleets of steamboats. The Chautauqua Traction Company served the communities on the western side of the lake; and the Jamestown, Westfield and Northwestern Railroad served the eastern side of the lake.
Westfield is a historic train station located at Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. It was constructed in 1904, for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. It is a 1+1⁄2-story brick, terra cotta, and sandstone structure in the Romanesque style. It served as the main transfer point for rail passengers destined for the Chautauqua Institution. The Jamestown, Westfield and Northwestern Railroad interurban, serving the eastern part of Chautauqua used the station. The Chautauqua Traction Company, serving the Chautauqua hamlet, used the Nickel Plate Railroad's station in Westfield.
Point Chautauqua Historic District is a national historic district located on Point Chautauqua, three miles (5 km) from Mayville in Chautauqua County, New York. It is located approximately due north, upwards and to the left, across Chautauqua Lake from the Chautauqua Institution. The district is a planned resort community laid out in 1875 by Frederick Law Olmsted as a Baptist camp meeting. Within a generation, it had become a resort community. The 80-acre (320,000 m2) district includes the serpentine street system, which ascends the steeply wooded slopes of the site, and its collection of single family residences developed in the late 19th and early 20th century. Among the architectural styles represented are American Craftsman, Queen Anne, and Carpenter Gothic.
The Groton Bridge Co. was an American construction company.
The Taylorville Chautauqua Auditorium is a Chautauqua auditorium located in Manners Park in Taylorville, Illinois. The auditorium was built in 1916 to house Chautauqua assemblies in Taylorville. Chautauqua was an adult educational movement which sent lecturers, educators, and musicians to assemblies in towns throughout the country during the early 20th century. In Taylorville, Chautauqua assemblies met eight days each year from 1914 through 1928. Lecturers and entertainers who came to the Chautauqua in Taylorville include William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Billy Sunday, Irvin S. Cobb, Alvin York, Harry Lauder, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Chautauqua Park Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Sac City, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The park consists of the Chautauqua Auditorium, Asa Platt gates, Metcalf cabin, a fish house, a small stone bridge, and a shelter house.
