Identifier: historyofqueensc00newy (find matches)
Title: History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Queens Co., N.Y Queens Co., N.Y
Publisher: New York W.W. Munsell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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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 1864.Since 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
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ROCKAWAY BEACH HOTELS. 163 I the water from a large well to all parts of the hotel.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 steam.The 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 elevation.The 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 belongs the credit of being thepioneer in promoting the interests and welfare of Rocka-way Beach. He was born at Jamaica, L.

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