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.
References
- "The Rockaways". Rootsweb.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- "Hitch a Ride to Rockaway Beach". Archived from the original on October 17, 2006. Retrieved December 20, 2006.
- "Bungalows". Farrockaway.com. September 2, 2001. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- "Community and library history". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2006.
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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