Athenaeum Hotel
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The Athenaeum Hotel
The Athenaeum Hotel is also
known as the La Grande Dame of Chautauqua.
Victorian in design, sitting atop a hill,
and overlooking the beautiful Chautauqua
Lake, the hotel makes for a charming
picturesque sight that people are bound not
to forget.
The full-service Athenaeum Hotel, which has
been in operation since 1881, is listed on
the National Historic Register. The hotel
cost over a hundred thousand dollars to
construct, and in 1983, another
two million dollars to
restore. The 1983 restoration involved the
installation of major structural
reinforcements, and of additional amenities
and utilities including heating, air
conditioning,
carpeting, and private
baths.
The guestrooms were given a
facelift with new wallpapers of more than 80
different patterns.
To retain the hotel’s
original Victorian charm, many of the
original furnishings were kept.
Hotel guests may relax in the sitting
parlor, which is filled with delicate white
wicker, or on the
ladder-back rocker lined
veranda overlooking the Chautauqua Lake.
The hotel is made even more enchanting by
the nearby quaint cottages, shops, post
office and
carefully landscaped
gardens, which are connected through winding
brick paths under majestic
maple trees. The Athenaeum
Hotel is the perfect place for tourists who
want to revisit the early
small-town America
lifestyle.
