Fisher paid just $2.6 million for more than 9,500 acres of prime real estate extending west from the Montauk Lighthouse to Napeague. My dad bought a drug store in Montauk in 1956 when I was 16. It was in a building a block off the plaza built with a half timber design Mr. Fisher wanted his resort in Montauk to give off — an English country resort feel. His name was Richard Gilmartin, and he moved around his little office in a wheelchair, having been crippled as a boy in Montauk with polio. Around 1985, this lonely abandoned skyscraper got sold and subsequently remodeled and fixed up.