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104  NE W Y ORK CIT Y & THE MID-A TLANTIC REGION

0 Syracuse w Chautauqua
* 144,700. ~ £ @ n 115 W * 4,600. @ n Chautauqua
Fayette St, (315) 470-1910. Institution, Chautauqua, (800)
∑ visitsyracuse.org 836-2787.
Like many upstate New York A secluded community
cities, Syracuse prospered after located on Chautauqua Lake
the arrival of the Erie Canal in in western New York State, this
the 1820s. The Erie Canal town doubles in population in
Museum, housed in a restored summer, when its Victorian
canal-side building just east of cottages and tree-lined streets
downtown, has a full-size canal are crowded with people
boat replica and a multimedia The Kodak Company’s office building attending the town’s famous
overview of the canal’s role in in Rochester Chautauqua Insti tution.
the city’s history. The down- Founded in 1874 as an instruc-
town Armory Square historic q Rochester tional center for Methodist
and entertainment district * 210,600. ~ £ @ n 45 East Sunday-school teachers, it
preserves many brick and cast- Ave, (800) 677-7282. spawned the Chautauqua
iron commercial and warehouse ∑ visitrochester.com Movement, sponsoring
buildings from Syracuse’s late correspondence courses and
19th-century boom period, as This lovely city, with its abundant lecture tours in an effort to
well as the 3,000-seat Landmark parkland and fine museums, make the liberal arts more
Theatre, built in 1928. evolved out of an industrial accessible. The town is now
A downtown surprise is the past, rooted in the milling one of the nation’s premier
Everson Museum of Arts, industries that developed venues for theater, classical
which has a remarkable around the Genesee River’s music, and opera. The shady,
permanent collection of more High Falls. The Center for High open-air amphitheater on the
than 11,000 items that range Falls includes a pedestrian timeless Chautauqua campus
from Ming dynasty porcelains bridge with scenic views of the holds lectures, performances,
to works by American painters still-roaring cascades, an art and religious services from
from Gilbert Stuart to Jackson gallery, a local history display, late June to late August.
Pollock and Andrew Wyeth, as and a tour of an 1816 factory
well as New York State that lies three stories below
landscapes by local artists. The street level. One of the city’s
building is the first museum most popular attractions is the
designed by architect I.M. Pei. Strong National Museum of
Play, a hands-on, interactive
E Erie Canal Museum center dedicated to the study
318 Erie Blvd E. Tel (315) 471- 0593. of play, particularly in relation
Open 10am–5pm Mon–Sat, to American culture. The
10am–3pm Sun. Closed public hols. George Eastman Museum is
7 = ∑ eriecanalmuseum.org where the eccentric founder
E Everson Museum of Arts of the city’s Eastman Kodak
401 Harrison St. Tel (315) 474-6064. Company lived until his death
Open noon–5pm Wed–Sun (to 8pm in 1932. It is now a superb
Thu). 7 - = ∑ everson.org museum of photography and
film, containing massive still, Renoir’s Little Blue Nude (1879),
film, and video holdings, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
cameras, as well as a collection
of books on photography. e Buffalo
* 259,000. ~ £ @ n 403
E Strong National Museum Main St, (800) 283-3256.
of Play ∑ visitbuffaloniagara.com
1 Manhattan Square. Tel (585) 263-
2700. Open 10am–5pm Mon–Thu, Burned by the British during the
10am–8pm Fri & Sat, noon–5pm Sun. War of 1812, the fortunes of
Closed Jan 1, Thanksgiving, Dec 25. & the frontier outpost of Buffalo
7 0 = ∑ museumofplay.org
revived some 13 years later,
P George Eastman Museum when it became the western
900 East Ave. Tel (585) 271-3361. terminus of the Erie Canal. This
Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sat, secured its economic future as
11am–5pm Sun. Closed Mon, Jan 1, the gateway to the prosperous
Old lithograph showing the inauguration Thanksgiving, Dec 25. & 7 9 - Great Lakes trade. The Buffalo
of the Erie Canal = ∑ eastman.org History Museum is housed in
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp122–4 and pp125–7

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