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).

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 Township, Fulton County, Illinois
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 (Budapest Metro)
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

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 laid up in Eleusis Bay, Greece
MV Astoria, a 1946 cruise ship of Brock Pierce
SS Astoria, a steamship
USS Astoria, several U.S. Navy vessels
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