CARL FISHER’S BAYVIEW COLONY, Port Washington

In the summer of 1922 Carl Graham Fisher, entrepreneur and creator of Miami Beach, rented a cottage in Port Washington. Deciding that Long Island was the place he wanted to be in the summer, Fisher then purchased a house on Manhasset Bay. In the next two years he built a shipyard for the Purdy Boat Works and planned a development called Bay View Colony, laying out the streets—South Court, North Court, and Pine Drive. The “colony” was intended to be a millionaires’ paradise. According to the book, Pacesetter, written by his cousin Jerry M. Fisher, his 110 ft lots were “professionally landscaped on the waterfront with a view of the bay.” Here he made his home while developing Montauk where in 1925 he purchased 9,630 acres from Arthur Benson. His vision was to establish at Montauk a deep-water port of entry and to create there a “first-class resort.”*

Seen here are views of some of the homes he built at Bayview Colony:
1. Carl Fisher’s waterfront residence as it appeared from the water when offered for sale in 1931. 2. Same house as seen from the road in 1999. 3. 13 North. 4. 25 North Court. 5. 20 South Court. 6. 16 South Court. 7. 8A South Court was Purdy house moved to the site around 1925.
*The Pacesetter, the Untold Story of Carl G. Fisher. Jerry M. Fisher, Lost Coast
Press, Fort Bragg, California, page 272

	CREDITS: 1. TOWN & COUNTRY, 1931 2-6. JOSEPH ADAMS 7. DR. GEORGE WILLIAMS