- Marine Pavilion (Far Rockaway)
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The Marine Pavilion was an elite hotel in Far Rockaway, Queens which was credited with introducing ocean bathing to New York. 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 the likes of 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.
External links
- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nynassa2/rockaways.htm
- http://www.forgotten-ny.com/Alleys/rockawayalleys/rockbeach.html
- http://www.farrockaway.com/bobnattarticle2.html
- http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_nm=CL-Communityinfo&branch_id=Fa
Other sources
Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part Five, published by the author, Garden City, Long Island, 1966.
Categories:- Hotels in Rockaway, Queens
- Hotels established in 1833
- Burned building and structures in the United States
- New York City building and structure stubs
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