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Photograph of Marine Air Terminal
Photograph by karla kaulfuss, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marine Air Terminal

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The Marine Air Terminal is an airport terminal at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York City, United States. Its main building, designed in the Art Deco style by William Delano of the firm Delano & Aldrich, opened in 1940.”

Wikipedia article Marine Air Terminal, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. La Guardia Airport, New York, 11371
  • When was it listed? July 1982
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Queens
  • National Register reference number. 82003397 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Marine Air Terminal, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Marine Air Terminal, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

2,425 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,425 fires within 5 miles of Marine Air Terminal between 2002 and 2020, burning about 593 acres in total. 153 started naturally. 118 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1680
Smoking166
Natural153
Arson/incendiarism118
Equipment and vehicle use80
Misuse of fire by a minor79
Recreation and ceremony67
Debris and open burning67
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Railroad operations and maintenance5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Marine Air Terminal: 7 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Garnet, Gemstone, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
102nd St & 4th Ave Garnet DepositGarnet, GemstoneOccurrence
155th St & 10th Ave Garnet DepositGarnet, ZirconiumOccurrence
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl DepositBerylliumOccurrence
69th/70th Sts & 2nd Ave DepositIron, Garnet, TitaniumOccurrence
Manhattan Island OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
National Gypsum/ Bronx MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
55th/56th Sts & 3rd Ave DepositIronOccurrence
85th/86th Sts, 9th/10th Aves Dep.IronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lent Homestead and Cemetery0.3 miles1984
Steinway House0.7 miles1983
Jackson Heights Historic District1.5 miles1999
Bohemian Hall and Park1.6 miles2001
US Post Office-Jackson Heights Station1.7 miles1988
Louis Armstrong House1.8 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003397 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens CountyAll 108 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.