Photograph of Lewis Miller Cottage — Photograph by J. Carol Burke, Jr, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Miller, Lewis, Cottage, Chautauqua Institution

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Lewis Miller Cottage is a historic house at Whitfield and Vincent Avenues, on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. Built in 1875, it was the residence of Lewis Miller, co-founder of the Chautauqua movement.”
Wikipedia article Lewis Miller Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. NY 17J, Chautauqua, 14757
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
Town. Chautauqua town
National Register reference number. 66000506 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

81 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Miller, Lewis, Cottage, Chautauqua Institution between 1993 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Natural	14
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	GORDON FIRE
21 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
16 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this property

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chautauqua, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2008	Lightning	Chautauqua	1 hurt	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Chautauqua	$20,000	no account filed
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Chautauqua	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Chautauqua	$15,000	Law Enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chautauqua	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds at the Chautauqua Institution.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Chautauqua	$15,000	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chautauqua	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chautauqua	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chautauqua	$5,000	A tree and wires feel onto a house along State Route 394.
September 2013	Hail	Chautauqua	$5,000	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Chautauqua	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1904 USGS Chautaqua quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1904 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Chautauqua quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Chautauqua Institution Historic District	0.2 miles	1973
Point Chautauqua Historic District	1.9 miles	1996
Midway Park	2.3 miles	2009
Pennsylvania Railroad Station	2.9 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000506 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chautauqua County	All 50 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.