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On July 6, 1971 Louis Armstrong passed away at his home in Queens, NY. Two days later, more than 30,000 came to pay their respects to the beloved jazz legend. Louis Armstrong was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, just a few miles away from his home in Corona.
Louis had lived most of his life in hotels and was not interested in living in a house when Lucille put a down payment on a home in her old neighborhood in Corona. Many prominent and well know Black artists lived in Queens at the time Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Dizzy Gillespy and others. Louis and Lucille lived in the Corona home until their death. Armstrong died July 7, 1971. Lucille died October 13, 1983. Lucille's will left everything to The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc. and the house to the City of New York. The house is now the landmarked Louis Armstrong House Museum.