Ray Cappiello [Maisonettes Motel] Digital Photos

Archive

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Montauk Library Archives

Name/Title

Ray Cappiello [Maisonettes Motel] Digital Photos

Entry/Object ID

ARC.1298

Scope and Content

Ray Cappiello's digital photograph collection includes four photographs depicting various views of Maisonettes Motel (now Ocean End), Montauk's first motel built in the early 1950s by Sam and Bea Cox. An aerial from the 1950s shows a birds-eye perspective of the motel as the ocean encroached on the shoreline.

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

circa 1950

Archive Size/Extent

4 digital photographs.

Restrictions

No restrictions. The collection is open for research. The Montauk Library holds digital access copies of this collection, the originals were returned to the donor. Contact archives@montauklibrary.org to view the collection.

Acquisition

Acquisition Method

Gift

Acquired From

Raymond Cappiello

Copyright

Type of License

In copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Copyright Holder

Montauk Library

Copyright Details

Researchers assume all responsibility for copyright questions. Fair use is permitted. For all other uses please contact archives@montauklibrary.org.

General Notes

Note Type

Historical Note

Note

Raymond M. Cappiello (1949-2017) was the owner of Manucci's and the Shark Shack restaurants in Montauk, New York. His first restaurant, the Shark Shack opened in 2000, four years later he opened Manucci's restaurant at the Montauk Manor, which later relocated to Kenny's Tipperary Inn on West Lake Drive. He was a former treasurer of the Montauk Chamber of Commerce and a member of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church. He and his wife bought a condo at Ocean End in 1992, after he retired from the restaurant business in 2014 he became the property manager at Ocean End.