Marine Pavilion (Queens)

The Marine Pavilion was a luxury hotel in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City. The Pavilion, which was built on the former homestead of Rockaway's first white settler, Richard Cornell, was completed in 1833, at a then-record cost of $43,000. The hotel attracted people such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Washington Irving, and other New York City literary figures and socialites who were first attracted to the hotel as a refuge from an outbreak of cholera. The Pavilion was destroyed by fire on June 25, 1864. However, with many more hotels already built in its wake, Far Rockaway remained a fashionable resort area. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

The hotel was located south of where Norton Street joined Central Avenue (now Beach 20th Street). ^{[5] [6]}

References

1. "The Rockaways". Rootsweb.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
2. "Hitch a Ride to Rockaway Beach". Archived from the original on October 17, 2006. Retrieved December 20, 2006.
3. "Bungalows". Farrockaway.com. September 2, 2001. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
4. "Community and library history". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2006.
5. Bellot, Alfred Henry (1918). History of the Rockaways from the Year 1685 to 1917. Far Rockaway: Bellot’s Histories, Inc. p. 83. Retrieved November 14, 2025– via Google Books.
6. "Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Far Rockaway, Queens County, New York". April 1890. Image 4. Retrieved November 14, 2025– via Library of Congress.

Further reading

Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part Five, published by the author, Garden City, Long Island, 1966.

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