Vanished Places: Frank B. Wiborg's Dunes

Frank B. Wiborg, a self-made millionaire and co-founder of a successful printing company, came to East Hampton in 1900 and began buying up property. In 1910 he owned some 80 acres between the ocean and Hook Pond. He built what was probably the largest house in East Hampton, called Dunes, on the property. The road to Wiborg's Beach,where the village trypots for rendering whale oil once stood, now called Highway Behind the Pond, was a driveway. Much of the house was torn down in 1941 to save on taxes; only a piece remains today. Sara and Gerald Murphy renovated the former carriage house on Hook Pond and named it Swan Cove. Called the Pink House by many, it was later owned by the actor Robert Montgomery. The Murphys' daughter, Honoria Murphy Donnelly, still lives in a house on the property.