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Marine Air Terminal

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The Marine Air Terminal stands at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, designed by the architect William Delano of the firm Delano and Aldrich in the Art Deco style and opened in 1940 as part of the airport's original development beginning the previous year. Its circular two-story main structure, flanked by a pair of one-story wings, was built specifically to serve Pan American Airways' Boeing 314 Clipper flying boats on their transatlantic passenger routes, landing and departing from the adjacent waters of Bowery Bay rather than a runway. The building's exterior carries a terracotta frieze of some 2,200 individual tiles depicting yellow flying fish against blue waves, and inside its two-story rotunda, finished in marble floors and walls, the artist James Brooks painted a 237-foot mural in 1942 tracing the history of flight from mythological imagery through modern transatlantic aviation. That mural was controversially painted over in 1952 during a period of political suspicion toward its left-leaning artist, and it was not restored and returned to public view until 1980. The Marine Air Terminal survives today as one of the few purpose-built flying boat terminals still standing anywhere in the world, a rare physical record of the brief era of transatlantic seaplane travel.

Facts
Building Type
Airport Terminal 1
Location
LaGuardia Airport, Queens, New York City, New York, United States 1
Completed Year
1940 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Transport Terminal (Airport, Ferry, etc.) 2
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Has Building Type

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Source Marine Air Terminal - Wikipedia

Uses Element

Source Marine Air Terminal - Wikipedia
Source Marine Air Terminal - Wikipedia
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Sources
1. Marine Air Terminal - Wikipedia
  • Main building section
    The Marine Air Terminal (also known as Terminal A) is an airport terminal
  • Main building section, second sentence
    The Marine Air Terminal, also known as Terminal A, is at the western end of LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York City
  • Opening and early years section
    The Marine Air Terminal officially opened on March 31, 1940
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Marine Air Terminal stands at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, designed by the architect William Delano of the firm Delano and Aldrich in the Art Deco style and opened in 1940 as part of the airport's original development beginning the previous year. Its circular two-story main structure, flanked by a pair of one-story wings, was built specifically to serve Pan American Airways' Boeing 314 Clipper flying boats on their transatlantic passenger routes, landing and departing from the adjacent waters of Bowery Bay rather than a runway. The building's exterior carries a terracotta frieze of some 2,200 individual tiles depicting yellow flying fish against blue waves, and inside its two-story rotunda, finished in marble floors and walls, the artist James Brooks painted a 237-foot mural in 1942 tracing the history of flight from mythological imagery through modern transatlantic aviation. That mural was controversially painted over in 1952 during a period of political suspicion toward its left-leaning artist, and it was not restored and returned to public view until 1980. The Marine Air Terminal survives today as one of the few purpose-built flying boat terminals still standing anywhere in the world, a rare physical record of the brief era of transatlantic seaplane travel.
  • In Style: Art Deco, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Art Deco
  • Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia lead
    The brick facade is painted buff, with black details, and contains a frieze that depicts flying fish.
  • Uses Element: Marble, Wikipedia lead
    The brick facade is painted buff, with black details, and contains a frieze that depicts flying fish.
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2. Wikidata: Marine Air Terminal
Wikidata Q6764005, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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