Astoria
Astoria is a placename, ultimately named for businessman John Jacob Astor (1763–1848), in the 1840s the wealthiest person in the United States and, as a hotel name, his great-grandson William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919).
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The name was first used for Fort Astoria, built in 1811 at the mouth of the Columbia River (in what is now Oregon) for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company.
Places
United States
- Astoria, Illinois (1837)
- Astoria, Missouri (1844)
- Astoria, Queens, neighborhood in New York City (1839)
- Astoria, Oregon, named for Fort Astoria (1811)
- Astoria, South Dakota (1900, named for Astoria, Oregon)
Other places
- Astoria, Budapest, a major junction in central Budapest, named after the Astoria Grand Hotel at its corner
- Astoria Boulevard, a boulevard in New York City
- Astoria Boulevard (BMT Astoria Line), a subway stop along the boulevard
- Astoria Canyon, a submarine abyss near the mouth of the Columbia River
- Astoria Park, a park located in Queens, New York.
Art, entertainment, and media
- Astoria (book), an 1836 account of the founding of Astoria, Oregon by Washington Irving
Fictional entities
- the wife of Muppet Show character Waldorf
- Astoria Greengrass, a minor character in the Harry Potter series
- a cartoon character from Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark
- a country in Jura Soyfer's play Astoria
Music
- Astoria (Tony Bennett album) 1990
- Astoria, a 2006 album by The Shys
- Astoria (Marianas Trench album) 2015
Edifices and enterprises
- Astoria, Amsterdam, a Jugendstil Office building in Amsterdam
- Astoria, Stockholm, a cinema in Stockholm, Sweden
- Astoria Theatre, Brighton, a theatre in Brighton, England
- Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, a U.S. Coast Guard facility in Astoria, Oregon
- Fort Astoria, an historic fur trading station located in modern Astoria, Oregon
- London Astoria, a former music venue
- Kaufman Astoria Studios, a film and television studio in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City
Hotels
- Hotel Astoria (Copenhagen), Denmark
- Hotel Astoria (Saint Petersburg), Russia
- Waldorf–Astoria (disambiguation)
- Danubius Hotel Astoria (Budapest), Hungary (1914)
Sports
- Astoria Bydgoszcz, a sport association and basketball team in Bydgoszcz, Poland, established in 1924
- FC Astoria Walldorf, a German association football club from the town of Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg
Vessels
- MS Astoria, a cruise ship broken up
- MV Astoria, a 1946 cruise ship to be broken up
- SS Astoria, a steamship
- USS Astoria, several U.S. Navy vessels
- MS Astoria Grande, cruise ship known as AIDAcara before
- Astoria (recording studio), David Gilmour's recording studio/houseboat
Other uses
- Astoria River, in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
- "Astoria", a codename for ADO.NET Data Services
See also
- All pages with titles containing Astoria
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