The New Chautauqua 
elms, stretches out from Vincent Square to 
The Round Table. 
H ere tour important buildings are to be 
arranged in a semicircle—the Hall of Philos¬ 
ophy, a memorial Art Gallery and Library, 
and Idle Hall ot the Christ, the fourth site 
being as yet unassigned. These two open 
plazas and the broad avenue connecting 
them will form a unit indigenous to Chau¬ 
tauqua ; and as the very names have a 
local significance, so in the execution of the 
design will the moods and passions of the 
place find expression. Unity of purpose, 
too, is to take visible form, running like 
a theme through all the design, showing 
itself in various moods and tenses. Thus, 
in the Hall 
of Philos¬ 
ophy and its 
approaches, 
between py¬ 
lons suggest¬ 
ive of Athe¬ 
nian watch- 
fires, the de¬ 
sign will be 
marked by 
reserve and 
dignity. 1 h e 
college cam¬ 
pus and ad¬ 
jacent build¬ 
ings will be 
less classic in 
their simplic¬ 
ity, but still 
i n harmony 
with that 
spirit. The 
vast Audito¬ 
rium, to the 
front of which 
is attached 
the Adminis¬ 
tration Build¬ 
ing, will also 
recall classic 
ages; but 
here, as in the 
w a t e r-gate 
and the tower 
at the pier, a 
festive note 
will modify the more severe character of the 
purely classic lines. 
Miller Park is a beautiful grove lying 
between the boat landing and Vincent 
Square. It will be connected with the 
latter by a grand stairway three hundred 
and seventy-five feet in length and one hun¬ 
dred feet wide. Thus the civic center will 
be reached by a broad and aspiring course 
of monumental character. Here Mr. Rhind 
has suggested “ marble groups of sculpture 
on each side of the grand stairway allegori¬ 
cally characteristic of the work of the Insti¬ 
tution, such as ‘ Christianity supported by 
Science and Literature ’ while the other 
might represent ‘Summer Rest, Home 
Study and 
Athletics.’ 
This would 
appeal to the 
newcomer, 
giving him 
the synopsis 
or key-note 
of the Chau¬ 
tauqua idea.” 
Not only in 
sculpture are 
these notes to 
be echoed, 
but in the 
minor archi¬ 
tectural de¬ 
tails. Every 
light stan¬ 
dard, f o u n - 
tain and shel¬ 
ter is to carry 
the same mes¬ 
sage by their 
reproducing, 
as a decora¬ 
tive motive, 
the seal of the 
I nstitution. 
A more strik¬ 
ing represen¬ 
tation of the 
same emblem 
will be visible 
both by day 
and night on 
the four dials 
Drawn by Mills Thompson 
THE MAIN LANDING PIER AT CHAUTAUQUA 
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