{"nrhp_refnum":"66000506","name":"Miller, Lewis, Cottage, Chautauqua Institution","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 17J","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chautauqua","county":"Chautauqua County","state":"NY","lat":42.21043321250005,"lon":-79.46498654904015,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1966-03-01","areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wooden cottage resembling a Swiss chalet, at Vincent and Asbury Avenues on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution on the west shore of Lake Chautauqua, New York. It was a prefabricated house that Lewis Miller brought from Akron, Ohio, and erected in 1875.","why_significant":"The cottage was the home of Lewis Miller, co-founder of the Chautauqua Institution, which began in 1874 as a Methodist Sunday School Teachers Assembly. The Institution grew into a broad educational movement that inspired about two hundred imitators by 1900. The cottage is also an early prefabricated house and one of the earliest and most historic buildings at Chautauqua.","narrative":"Overlooking Lake Chautauqua from Miller Park, this two-story gabled wooden cottage was the home of Lewis Miller, who co-founded the Chautauqua Institution with the Reverend John Vincent in 1874. Miller brought the prefabricated house from Akron, Ohio, and set it up on its present site in 1875. He lived there with his eleven children and entertained prominent guests, including President Ulysses S. Grant. Painted grey with green trim, the building resembles a Swiss chalet, with a front porch and a second-story balcony. A 1922 remodelling removed most of the balcony, combined the first-floor rooms into one large space, and converted a former women's dormitory upstairs into bedrooms. The cottage matters because of its link to Chautauqua, which began as a summer Sunday school course, broadened into a secular program of lectures and home study, and inspired some two hundred imitators by 1900. Miller's descendants still use it as a summer residence.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Resembles a Swiss chalet","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used primarily as a summer residence by Lewis Miller's descendants; remodelled in 1922 with some exterior and interior alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.681458-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/66000506_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000506/2167dfb9ce-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000506/2167dfb9ce-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"J. Carol Burke, Jr.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LewisMillerCottage_HABS_cropped.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">J. Carol Burke, Jr.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LewisMillerCottage_HABS_cropped.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001168","name":"Chautauqua Institution Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/chautauqua-institution-historic-district-73001168/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315665","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Miller_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6536885"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/chautauqua-county/miller-lewis-cottage-chautauqua-institution-66000506/"}