Marine Pavilion (Queens)

The Marine Pavilion was an elite hotel in Far Rockaway, Queens, which was credited with introducing ocean bathing to New York, United States. 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]

References

  1. ↑ "The Rockaways". Rootsweb.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20061017205830/http://www.forgotten-ny.com/Alleys/rockawayalleys/rockbeach.html. Archived from the original on October 17, 2006. Retrieved December 20, 2006. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "Bungalows". Farrockaway.com. 2001-09-02. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070927202922/http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_nm=CL-Communityinfo&branch_id=Fa. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2006. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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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