Frederick Law Olmsted's Point Chautauqua: The Story of An Historical Lakeside Community

by Edgar C. Conkling

Point Chautauqua was designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1875 on a wooded hillside rising steeply from the shores of Lake Chautauqua. The only religious community designed by Olmsted, over the years it evolved into a hotel resort and then a lakeside residential community. Point Chautauqua was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 and is now considered one of the masterpieces of America's greatest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967148065
• ISBN13: 9780967148069
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Canisius College Press
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.