Marine Pavilion (Queens)

{{Short description|Former hotel in Queens, New York}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~nynassa2/rockaways.htm |title=The Rockaways |publisher=Rootsweb.com |date= |accessdate=2016-03-05}}{{cite web|url=http://www.forgotten-ny.com/Alleys/rockawayalleys/rockbeach.html |title=Hitch a Ride to Rockaway Beach|accessdate=December 20, 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017205830/http://www.forgotten-ny.com/Alleys/rockawayalleys/rockbeach.html |archivedate=October 17, 2006 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.farrockaway.com/bobnattarticle2.html |title=Bungalows |publisher=Farrockaway.com |date=2001-09-02 |accessdate=2016-03-05}}{{cite web|url=http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_nm=CL-Communityinfo&branch_id=Fa|title=Community and library history |accessdate=December 20, 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927202922/http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_nm=CL-Communityinfo&branch_id=Fa |archivedate=September 27, 2007 }}