Trivia Challenge #2 - Miller Cottage

[Selden Campen]

As mentioned before, I am asking questions in conjunction with a book "Pictorial Guide to Chautauqua" that I am assembling.

Challenge #2 - Miller Cottage
Per my father's book "Chautauqua Impressions", when Mina Edison died, ownership of the Miller Cottage was transferred to Mrs. Edward Arnn, Mina's great granddaughter.  Does she still own and occupy that cottage at 28 Miller Park.  If not, what has been the subsequent transfers of ownership?

Challenge #3 - Pier Building
The primary occupant of the Pier Building is the College Club (on the 2nd floor). Is the lounge on the 1st floor still occupied by the College Club?  If not, what is it used for?  Is the center of the first floor filled with looms as it once was and still used for teaching weaving?  Is it also used for any other purpose?

Selden Campen
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[Selden Campen]

Thanks to all who supplied info on the Pier Building.  I received conflicting information but was convinced after reading many responses that the looms (which may be Chautauqua's or RIT's were moved to the Turner Center and the 1st floor of the building is used for various Special Studies programs.  Not having much room for details since on the same page I want to include a nice picture of the building, I decided to keep it short and simple.  Below is the text I've assembled on the Pier Building.  Much credit to Chautauqua Impressions, Three Tapes of the Gavel, etc., and all of you.
 

"Fair Point projects east out into the lake just north of Palestine Park.  At the Institution’s founding and for the next quarter century, the main entrance to Chautauqua had been via water.  Fair Point provided a natural harbor for arriving boats affording some protection from the frequent northwest winds.  The Pier Building, designed by E. B. Green, was built in 1916.  It houses the Pier Building Club, formerly the College Club, and some classrooms. The Club provides college age Chautauquans internet access, pool, ping-pong, a snack bar, a beach, TV lounge and frequent evening age specific entertainment.In front of the Pier Building’s colonnaded side is the College Beach and to its west is the Children’s Beach, both open to the public. 

 

In 1886, replacing an old dock that had become totally inadequate, the original Pier Building was a grand three-story structure with a tower housing ten bells that greeted the hourly arrival of steamboats.  It was festive in appearance and contained ticketing and baggage offices on the first floor, tempting shops and an observation veranda on the second, and dormitory and classrooms on the third.  By early 1900s most Chautauquans were arriving by the rail or auto at the road gate and the pilings of the initial pier building had been damaged by the weight and motion of the bells requiring frequent and costly repairs.  The bells were moved to the new tower in 1911 and a new smaller pier building was constructed in 1916."

 Selden Campen

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[Selden Campen]

Thank you to all those who responded to Trivia Challenge #2 - Miller Cottage (a.k.a. Miller/Edison Cottage). 

I learned that I had mis-read "Chautauqua Impressions" and that Mrs. Edward Arnn (Nancy Arnn) is the great granddaughter of Lewis Miller, not Mina Edison.  Mina Edison passed on in 1947 and ownership transferred to her niece, Nancy Arnn and since 2010, Ted & Kim Arnn of the next generation.  

Selden Campen

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Subject: Trivia Challenge #2 - Miller Cottage

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:48:21 -0500

Challenge #2 - Miller Cottage
Per my father's book "Chautauqua Impressions", when Mina Edison died, ownership of the Miller Cottage was transferred to Mrs. Edward Arnn, Mina's great granddaughter.  Does she still own and occupy that cottage at 28 Miller Park.  If not, what has been the subsequent transfers of ownership?

Selden Campen