carl fisher

Carl Fisher, the man who tried to turn Montauk into the Miami Beach of the north in the 1920s, built this house for himself.

Montauk in the 1930s was a far, far different place than it is today. In 1925, Carl Fisher bought the entire peninsula of Montauk, 10,000 acres in all for $2.5M (that’s about $315M in today’s dollars). His dream was to develop Montauk into the Miami Beach of the North. (He’d already built Miami Beach!) Fisher then immediately began putting…
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