Winifred Goddard, 102

Winifred Goddard, who ran the Grandview Manor inn and restaurants in Montauk with her husband, Sidney Goddard, during the 1950s and ’60s, died in the Masonicare adult home in Wallingford, Conn., on July 1. She was 102 and had been in hospice care for some time with Parkinson’s disease, her family said.

In 1950, the Goddards bought one of the storied Montauk Association Seven Sisters houses, the Alfred M. Hoyt cottage, designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White and placed by Frederick Law Olmsted on a stunning site in the Montauk moorlands. They named it Grandview Manor and opened it as a guest house the following year. In summers, their restaurant boasted a menu that featured duck prepared by European-trained chefs.

There was dancing to recorded music, and on the weekends in the early ’60s, Don Henri’s Orchestra, which played at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan the rest of the year, would appear.

Visitors looking for the place were advised in print advertisements to keep an eye out for two white rocks along the road and a small sign and to phone if they got lost.

Mrs. Goddard lent her restaurant to good causes, hosting lunches for the Montauk Community Church and National Multiple Sclerosis Society, among others.

She was born Winifred Blanchard on the island of St. Kitts in the West Indies on June 29, 1914. She met Mr. Goddard, who was known as Jackie, in Barbados and they married in 1935. The couple later settled in New York City, before moving to Montauk. Mr. Goddard died before her. 

In 1961 Mr. Goddard purchased the former Coast Guard station at Ditch Plain and had it moved close to their property, where it operated as the Grandview Restaurant until 1975.

In the late 1960s they acquired Michelle’s Restaurant on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, where celebrities would often stop in for a slice of Mrs. Goddard’s delicious cheesecake, her family said.

They retired to St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., after closing the restaurant and inn, where she lived until 1995. The painter and film director Julian Schnabel eventually bought the house and still owns it. 

Mrs. Goddard is survived by numerous nieces and nephews, who enjoyed many summers in Montauk as her and her husband’s guests.

A private family memorial was held to celebrate her life, as per her wishes.