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Legacy: Works by Fisher Adorn Montauk

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Carl Fisher is Montauk.

During a brief window in the 1920s, Fisher began to transform Montauk into an exclusive resort. Between 1926 and 1930, a year after the stock market crash, Fisher built the Tudor-style Montauk Manor, a seven-story office building, the Montauk Yacht Club and the original Montauk Golf Club. For his family, Fisher built a huge, three-story, white-columned mansion overlooking Lake Montauk. His mansion was heavily damaged by fire in 1990, but has been remodeled. His manor was closed from the 1960s until the 1980s, when it became a condominium complex. The lobby looks today the way it looked when Fisher built it. It has slate floors, large fireplaces and handsome woodwork.

``You walk into the lobby and you see exactly what Fisher did,'' said Joan Lycke, a trustee of the Montauk Library.