. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . e place is a city in popu-lation during the summer season. Forty years ago, with the exception of SaratogaSprings, Rockaway was the most famous watering placein America. About the year 1833 the renowned MarinePavilion was built. It was two stories high, and con-tained about 150 rooms. Its piazza was 200 feet longand 25 feet broad. It was consumed by fire in that time have sprung up many large hotels at FarRockaway, the beautiful hotel at Long Beach and thoseat Rock
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . e place is a city in popu-lation during the summer season. Forty years ago, with the exception of SaratogaSprings, Rockaway was the most famous watering placein America. About the year 1833 the renowned MarinePavilion was built. It was two stories high, and con-tained about 150 rooms. Its piazza was 200 feet longand 25 feet broad. It was consumed by fire in that time have sprung up many large hotels at FarRockaway, the beautiful hotel at Long Beach and thoseat Rockaway Beach, including that colossal structure theRockaway Beach Hotel, THE LARGEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD. In 1881, while not yet completed, a part of it wasopened to the public about the ist of August. Thebuilding is 1,188 feet long by 250 feet wide. It hasseveral hundred rooms and over 100,000 square feet ofpiazzas. It fronts the ocean, and the beach is unsur-passed. Near the hotel are a large number of bathinghouses. The water and gas supply is furnished from thecompanys own works, a Holly pumping machine forcing i. ROCKAWAY BEACH HOTELS. 163 I the water from a large well to all parts of the drainage system is complete; all the refuse matteris discharged through massive iron pipes at a pointdistant from the hotel, and is carried by direct currentsinto Jamaica Bay. The rooms are heated by observatory on the top of the hotel is 200 feetsquare and there are two elevators to it. An unob-structed view of the ocean, the bay and the Long Islandcountry for many miles is obtained from this new iron pier, constructed by the Rockaway BeachPier Company, is the largest of its kind in the UnitedStates. It extends about 1,300 feet into the ocean, be-yond the breakers, affording water sufficiently deep forlanding from large steamers. Its general width is 31/^feet, the pierhead being 81^ feet wide. Every span isbraced. OTHER HOTELS, ETC. To James S. Remsen belon
Size: 1365px × 1831px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidhistoryofque, bookyear1882
