During the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose members included Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, Goulds, and Morgans, this quiet refuge in the Golden Isles was the perfect winter getaway for the wealthy new industrial class of the snowbound North.

In this delightful book, a companion volume to The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires, June Hall McCash focuses on the social club's members and the "cottages" they built near the clubhouse between 1888 and 1928. Illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published photographs from private family collections, The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony tells the stories of each home, the owners' connections with the island, and their interactions with one another.

While quite grand by today's standards, these homes were relatively simple in design, built to enhance rather than subdue the island's wild beauty. The cottages of Jekyll's "Millionaire's Row" were not nearly as lavish as their Newport counterparts, but typified Victorian resort architecture from New England to Florida, ranging from Queen Anne to shingle to Spanish and Mediterranean styles.

After the Jekyll Island Club disbanded following World War II, the state of Georgia acquired the island to ensure its conservation. Once threatened by years of neglect and disrepair, the elegant clubhouse has been converted to a hotel, and many of the gracious cottages have been restored to their original condition. The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony is a fascinating guide to a unique treasure of architectural history, as well as a personal look at golden days gone by.

Formato	Tapa dura
Número de Páginas	336
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	University of Georgia Press
Fecha de Publicación	1998-07-01
Dimensiones	10.1" x 8.4" x 1.1" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si
Temas	Siglo 19, Siglo 19, Georgia, Georgia, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Sur

McCash, June Hall

JUNE HALL McCASH is the author, coauthor, or editor of fourteen books (five historical novels, eight nonfiction works, and one book of poetry) as well as numerous articles and is the recipient of an outstanding alumna award for distinguished career from Agnes Scott College. A fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Education, she recently completed a nine-year term as a trustee of the Jekyll Island Foundation and currently serves on the Foundation's advisory board. She is the author of The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony and coauthor of The Jekyll Island Club (both Georgia) and was named a Georgia Author of the Year in 2011 and 2013.