Past Incidents

Please note the following limited hours and service at food and beverage venues on the grounds:

• Plaza Market: Open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Afterwords Café: Closed until further notice
• Brick Walk Cafe:
  • Hot Food Line: Tentatively open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Grab and Go: Open (limited options)
  • Ice Cream: Open 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. (line cutoff at 7:50 p.m.)
  • Coffee Gazebo: Open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

As always, we ask for and appreciate your patience and understanding as we navigate staffing challenges.

Also remember that Culinary Week continues at Miller Park today from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., with food, drink and craft vendors.

Colleagues, please note the following limited hours and service at food and beverage venues on the grounds:

• Plaza Market: Closed
• Afterwords Café: Closed
• Brick Walk Cafe: Line closed today, limited Grab and Go
  • Ice Cream: Open 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.(Line ends at 7:50)
  • Coffee Gazebo: Open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

As always, we ask for and appreciate your patience and understanding as we navigate end-of-summer staffing challenges.

Chautauqua Volunteer Fire Department officials have declared a small structural fire at the Cambridge Inn, 9 Roberts, on the Institution grounds to be extinguished. Fire investigators are now on the scene. Any damage appears contained to the indoors of the structure.

Residents and patrons should continue to avoid traveling via vehicle in the Bestor Plaza area and by foot in the vicinity of Roberts and South Terrace until emergency vehicles and equipment are cleared.

The Athenaeum Hotel phone system is experiencing an outage following this morning's severe thunderstorms. Please email athenaeum@chq.org rather than call if you have any matters to conduct with the hotel. At this time there is no estimate on when service will be restored.

Residents and patrons are advised that researchers from SUNY Fredonia will be conducting drone flights along the Chautauqua shoreline with the permission of Chautauqua Institution on Friday, July 23, throughout the day, weather permitting. The drone pilot is licensed for this work and will time the flights so they do not interfere with Institution activities at Boys’ and Girls’ Club and other areas that require schedule restrictions. Drone flights on the Institution grounds are only authorized following written permission from Chautauqua Institution.