Format
Brief
City
Chautauqua
State/Province
NY
Country
USA
Project Type
District/Corridor/Community
Location Type
Small Town/Rural
Land Uses
Cultural Use
Education
Mixed Residential
Recreation
Religious Use
Keywords
Cultural programming
Historic town
Pedestrian-oriented development
ULI Awards for Excellence 2005 Winner
Site Size
600
acres
acres
hectares
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If the physical archetype for traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs) in the United States is colonial Charleston, Savannah, or Annapolis, the holistic prototype has always been Chautauqua. Founded in 1874 on Lake Chautauqua in southwestern New York state by two Methodist ministers as a summer retreat for Sunday-school teachers, it has grown to be ecumenical in its religious, cultural, educational, and recreational programs, and it has grown in size as well, from 129 acres (52 ha) at the beginning to 600 acres (243 ha) today. “Chautauqua,” a Seneca word meaning “one has taken the fish out there,” soon came to mean leisure time adult education with a somewhat evangelistic but nondenominational fervor, and today it means, more broadly, a retreat from daily life for reflection, discussion, and instruction in the company of like-minded people.
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Format
Brief
City
Chautauqua
State/Province
NY
Country
USA
Project Type
District/Corridor/Community
Location Type
Small Town/Rural
Land Uses
Cultural Use
Education
Mixed Residential
Recreation
Religious Use
Keywords
Cultural programming
Historic town
Pedestrian-oriented development
ULI Awards for Excellence 2005 Winner
Site Size
600
acres
acres
hectares
Sponsor
The Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, NY
Consultants
EDAW, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, LLC
New York, NY
Urban Design Associates
Pittsburgh, PA
Mitchell P. Kurtz Architects
New York, NY
Permar, Inc.
Charleston, SC
Principal Author
David Taksuye
ULI Awards for Excellence 2005 Winner