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Demographics                 

• 1/3 retired, 1/3 over 50 and still working
• Each week, over 500 youths attend our three clubs and camps
• Over 300 young artists are students in our fine and performing arts schools each summer

Winter Residents

• 400

Revenue

• $28 million/year

Staff

• Year round: 110
• Summer: 1,300 (about 500 others are hired by private businesses on the grounds).

Acreage (total)

• 783 (approximately 250 on-grounds; 533 off-grounds)

Chautauqua Lake

• approximately 18 miles long (average 1 mile wide)

Number of Buildings (including homes)

• 1,200
• Includes a year-round Post Office, Public Library and Bookstore

Amphitheater

• built 1893
• 5,000 seats

Athenaeum Hotel

• built 1881 (annex 1924)
• 154 rooms

Miscellaneous Facts

Nine U.S. presidents have visited Chautauqua:

• Bill Clinton* (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996**)
• William McKinley (1895)
• Theodore Roosevelt* (1890, 1894, 1899, 1905**, 1914)
• William Taft (1904)

* sitting President at time of Chautauqua visit
** year of Chautauqua visit during term in office

Former Morning Lecturers

• Jane Addams
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Barbara Bush
• Hillary Clinton
• Mario Cuomo
• Lou Dobbs
• Amelia Earhart
• Henry Ford
• Al Gore
• Helen Keller
• Jack Kemp
• Sandra Day O'Connor
• Nelson Rockefeller
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Tim Russert
• Charles Schumer
• Elie Wiesel

General Information: 1 (800) 836-ARTS

Director of Education (Morning Lectures, Literary Arts, Special Studies): Sherra Babcock (716) 357-6316

Director of Recreation and Youth Services: Jack Voelker (716) 357-6403

Vice President / Director of Programming: Marty W. Merkley (716) 357-6217

Director of Religion: Joan Brown Campbell (716) 357-6242

Chief Marketing Officer: George Murphy (716) 357-6230

Athenaeum Hotel General Manager: Bruce Stanton (716) 357-4444

For more on our history, please visit http://www.ciweb.org/our-history/.