Boat Landing and Miller Tower Postcard

Boat Landing and Miller Tower, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York. The Chautauqua Institution was founded in 1874 as a vacation school for Sunday school teachers by Ohio manufacturer, Lews Miller, and the Reverend John H. Vincent, a Methodist minister from Pennsylvania. The Institution's religious program continues to be ecumenical in spirit and practice, presenting leaders of many religious faiths from this country and abroad. This lake-side Victorian village in Western New York is a place w an abundance of music, dance, and the visual arts find their own forms of expression . The Miller Bell Tower was erected in 1911 to commemorate founder, Lewis Miller.