Mary Shelley was in Geneva when she thought of the story of Frankenstein. Mary was with her husband Percy Shelley, her friend Lord Bryon, and physician John Polidori, intially on vacation before being trapped indoors by inconvient weather.

This is one of the earliest known instances of the Temperance movement and is considered to the one of the beginning events of the movement. John Wesley, whom the chapel is named after, stated that “buying, selling, and drinking of liquor, unless absolutely necessary, were evils to be avoided.”