{"nrhp_refnum":"92001714","name":"RMS QUEEN MARY","other_names":["Hmt Queen Mary"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Pier J, 1126 Queensway Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Long Beach","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.75291163500003,"lon":-118.19072177999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-04-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Entertainment/Recreation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The RMS Queen Mary is a 1930s three-funnelled steel Cunard passenger liner, built by John Brown & Co. at Clydebank, Scotland, and now moored at Pier J in Long Beach, California, where she serves as a hotel and museum.","why_significant":"The nomination presents her as one of the largest passenger liners ever built and a major example of 1930s Art Deco and Streamline Moderne ship design and interior craftsmanship. She also had a long record as a North Atlantic passenger liner and as a World War II troop transport. The truncated text does not show the criteria marked or the formal significance statement.","narrative":"Moored at Pier J in Long Beach, California, the Queen Mary is a steel ocean liner about 1,000 feet long, with three elliptical funnels, a raked stem and a cruiser stern. Cunard planned her in 1926 to carry weekly sailings between Southampton and New York at record speed. John Brown & Co. laid her keel at Clydebank in 1930, work stopped in 1931 during the Depression, and it resumed in 1934 after government funding tied to the Cunard and White Star merger. She was launched in September 1934 and entered service in 1936. She carried passengers until 1939, served as a troop ship from 1940 to 1947, then returned to passenger service until Long Beach bought her in 1967. Her Art Deco and Streamline Moderne interiors drew on British artists and designers and on 53 types of wood, and she was an early large-scale user of plastics on a ship. Today she operates as a hotel and museum, with several hull openings added for visitors.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Brown & Co., Ltd., Clydebank, Scotland (builder); interior design directed by Arthur J. Davids and Benjamin W. Morris","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: Art Deco (Moderne/Streamline Moderne); 1930s luxury liner with three funnels","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used since 1967 as a hotel and maritime museum and attraction in Long Beach; some doors sealed and new openings cut into the hull for visitor access.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.531548-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/92001714.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001714/ed413b4cd2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001714/ed413b4cd2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"RMS_Queen_Mary_Long_Beach_January_2011.jpg: David Jones from Isle of Wight, United Kingdom derivative work: Altair78 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RMS_Queen_Mary_Long_Beach_January_2011_view.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RMS_Queen_Mary_Long_Beach_January_2011.jpg: David Jones from Isle of Wight, United Kingdom derivative work: Altair78 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RMS_Queen_Mary_Long_Beach_January_2011_view.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859461","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q752939"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/rms-queen-mary-92001714/"}