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.

40°35′47″N 73°45′15″W / 40.59639°N 73.75417°W / 40.59639; -73.75417

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