Backstory: The History of the Montauk Manor

Original Montauk Manor Playhouse, circa 1930
Dan’s Papers

The Montauk Manor, high on Fort Hill overlooking the downtown of Montauk, was built in 1927 as the first of what were intended to be four hotels scattered around Montauk. Carl Fisher, the developer of Miami Beach, could do that because he’d bought the entire peninsula of Montauk two years earlier, intending to create…