{"nrhp_refnum":"88000052","name":"Montauk Tennis Auditorium","other_names":["Montauk Playhouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Flamingon Ave. and Edjemere St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Montauk","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":41.050326539000025,"lon":-71.95068779799993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-02-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large indoor tennis auditorium in the resort village of Montauk, at the eastern tip of Long Island, Suffolk County, New York, built 1928-1929 for developer Carl G. Fisher's resort; the builder was Pearson Construction Co.","why_significant":"It is an unusually large example of the 1920s indoor tennis auditorium type, seating 6,000 and said to be the largest structure in the world built for spectator tennis. It is also a key surviving component of Carl Fisher's planned Montauk resort, designed in the Tudor-inspired style used across the community.","narrative":"Built in 1928-1929 on Montauk's eastern Long Island, this large indoor tennis auditorium was meant to be a main attraction of developer Carl G. Fisher's planned seaside resort. It sits on axis with the train station and near the Montauk Manor Hotel. Light steel framing, sheathed in prefabricated plywood panels and finished in stucco, supports two great tennis halls under steep roofs, with a stone base, tall chimneys and a half-timbered corner pavilion in Tudor-inspired style. It was designed to seat 6,000 and was said to be the largest structure built for spectator tennis. The architect is not firmly established, though Fisher's staff architect Robert Tappan is considered the likely designer; Pearson Construction Company was the builder. The resort faltered during the Depression, and the building was never a great success. A theater was later inserted into one hall and the glazed roof was replaced, yet the building survives largely intact. It is now vacant, and is one of few remnants of Fisher's plan.","period_of_significance":"1928-1929","architect_builder":"Pearson Construction Co. (builder); architect not definitively identified, probably one of Carl Fisher's staff architects","architectural_style":"Tudor-inspired design with stucco, half-timber overlay and steel casement windows","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as vacant and unoccupied, in fair condition; altered by a later theater insertion and reroofing, but described as essentially intact. The attached power house is largely a ruin.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.470614-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000052.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000052/b7b43f9fcf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000052/b7b43f9fcf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eh-montauk-tennis.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eh-montauk-tennis.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322192","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Tennis_Auditorium","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6904496"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/montauk-tennis-auditorium-88000052/"}