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.
However, with many more hotels already built in its wake, Far Rockaway remained a fashionable resort area.
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