Claim: Guild Hall, the building site of which was the former homestead of Samuel Miller, is one of the United States' first multidisciplinary cultural institutions which opened to great fanfare on August 19, 1931.
Evidence: Guild Hall of East Hampton in the incorporated Village of East Hampton on Long Island's East End, is one of the United States' first multidisciplinary cultural institutions. The building site, on Main Street, was the former homestead of Samuel Miller, a farmer, between the First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton and Mulford Farm, a homestead which dates back to pre-Revolutionary War times. Conceived of and mainly funded by the philanthropist Mrs. Lorenzo E. Woodhouse, Guild Hall opened to great fanfare on August 19, 1931 ("East Hampton has never known a celebration like that"), when 1,000 people crammed into the theater and gallery.