{"nrhp_refnum":"96000521","name":"Point Chautauqua Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by NY 430 and Chautauqua Lake between Lake and Leet Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Maryville","county":"Chautauqua County","state":"NY","lat":42.23563972550005,"lon":-79.45963554661716,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eighty-acre planned resort community on a peninsula of Lake Chautauqua, about three miles from Mayville, New York, laid out in 1875 as a Baptist camp meeting to a plan by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.","why_significant":"The district preserves most of Olmsted's 1875 serpentine street plan, which departed from the grid used at the Methodist camp across the lake. It also holds a collection of residences, mainly Carpenter Gothic, Gothic Revival, Stick, Queen Anne and Craftsman, that trace the shift from religious retreat to summer resort.","narrative":"Point Chautauqua is an eighty-acre lakeside community on a peninsula of Lake Chautauqua, near Mayville in southwestern New York. It was laid out in 1875 for the American Baptist Church as a camp meeting, modeled on the Methodist camp directly across the lake. Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. designed the plan, using curving, gently graded streets that follow the land, with public parks, a waterfront promenade and 465 small lots. Over time the religious purpose gave way to a summer resort. The Baptist operation went bankrupt in 1887, and the Grand Hotel and tabernacle were later lost. What remains is a street system of eleven intact streets and a collection of wood-frame cottages, mostly Carpenter Gothic from the early period, with Craftsman and Bungalow houses added later. The district includes 73 contributing resources and 37 noncontributing ones. It was listed for its Olmsted-designed plan and its record of resort development.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (landscape architect, 1875 plan)","architectural_style":"Mid-Nineteenth Century; Late Victorian; Late 19th and Early Twentieth Century; American Movements (Carpenter Gothic, Gothic Revival, Stick, Queen Anne, Craftsman)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Continues in use as a resort and residential community; the Grand Hotel burned in 1902, the tabernacle was demolished in 1904, and one inn remains.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.014818-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96000521.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000521/5e2f1dbc6b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000521/5e2f1dbc6b-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_in_the_Point_Chautauqua_Historic_District_Jul_12.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_in_the_Point_Chautauqua_Historic_District_Jul_12.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316780","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Chautauqua_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7207979"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/chautauqua-county/point-chautauqua-historic-district-96000521/"}