Jekyll Island Club Explained

Jekyll Island Club Historic District
Nrhp Type:nhld
Nocat:yes
Location:Jekyll Island, Georgia
Coordinates:31.0606°N -81.4219°W
Area:240 acres (97.1 hectares)
Built:1884–1930
Architect:Multiple
Architecture:Queen Anne
Designated Nrhp Type:June 2, 1978[1]
Added:January 20, 1972
Refnum:72000385

The Jekyll Island Club was a private club on Jekyll Island, on Georgia's Atlantic coast. It was founded in 1886 when members of an incorporated hunting and recreational club purchased the island for $125,000 (about $3.1 million in 2017) from John Eugene du Bignon. The original design of the Jekyll Island Clubhouse, with its signature turret, was completed in January 1888. The club thrived through the early 20th century; its members came from many of the world's wealthiest families, most notably the Morgans, Rockefellers, and Vanderbilts. The club closed at the end of the 1942 season due to complications from World War II.

In 1947, after five years of funding a staff to keep up the lawn and cottages, the island was purchased from the club's remaining members for $675,000 (about $7.4 million in 2017) during condemnation proceedings by the state of Georgia. The state tried operating the club as a resort, but this was not financially successful, and the entire complex was closed by 1971.

The complex was designated a historic landmark in 1978.

It was restored and reopened as a luxury resort hotel in 1985. Jekyll Island Club Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.[2]

Founding

At the end of the plantation era of Jekyll Island, Newton Finney, suggested to Dubignon, his brother-in-law, that they might acquire the island and then sell it to Northern businessmen as a winter resort. A New York banker helped with the purchase of the entire island. By 1885, Dubignon was the sole owner of Jekyll.

In 1885, Finney and a New York associate, Oliver K. King, gathered a group of men and petitioned the Glynn county courts, becoming incorporated as the "Jekyl Island Club" on December 9, 1885. They agreed to sell 100 shares of the Jekyll Island Club stock to 50 people at $600 a share (about $15,000 in 2017).

Finney had no difficulty selling the shares. Six of the first seven shares went to the men who signed the charter petition: Finney, Dubignon, King, Richard L. Ogden, William B. D'Wolf, and Charles L. Schlatter. In all, Finney was able to find 53 people to join the club, including such famous names as Henry Hyde, Marshall Field, John Pierpont Morgan, Joseph Pulitzer, and William K. Vanderbilt.[3]

On February 17, 1886, Finney signed an official agreement with Dubignon, who sold Jekyll Island to Finney's Jekyll Island Club for $125,000. On April 1, 1886, a meeting was held in New York to create the constitution and by-laws, and to nominate officers for the club. The first president was Lloyd Aspinwall, vice president was Judge Henry Elias Howland, treasurer was Franklin M. Ketchum, and Richard L. Ogden became secretary. These men faced the difficult task of turning the undeveloped property into a social club for the wealthy upper class of America.

Lloyd Aspinwall served just 5 months as the club president before he died suddenly. Henry Howland then took up the position as president of the club.

Committees were formed to get the club off the ground. Charles A. Alexander of Chicago was chosen to design the clubhouse, and Horace William Shaler Cleveland, a famous landscape architect, was chosen to design and lay out the grounds.

Ground was broken on the clubhouse building in mid-August 1886. After some setbacks the clubhouse was completed on November 1. The club officially opened its doors when the executive committee arrived for the 1888 season on January 21.

Several nationally important events took place on Jekyll Island during the Club era, including the first transcontinental telephone call made by Theodore N. Vail, president of AT&T, to Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Watson and President Woodrow Wilson in 1915; and the development of the Aldrich–Vreeland Act for the National Monetary Commission in 1908.

Recreation during the club era

The Jekyll Island Club was a unique resort, more family-oriented than the Union Club or the Chicago Club. It enjoyed great popularity among the elite classes, maintaining a highly exclusive character for 60 years.[4]

When the club started out, hunting was a major recreational activity. A gamekeeper was hired to keep the island well-stocked with pheasants, turkeys, quail and deer.

All members were to report daily what they had killed and turn it over to the club. Wild game was a common sight on the menu of the clubhouse. A taxidermist shop was located within the club compound, specifically for mounting the prize game.

As the club grew, other recreations became popular. Golf eventually took over as the club's dominant sport. The first course was located just to the north of the Club compound. Later, in the 1920s, an ocean side course was built. A portion of this historic golf course is still intact, and can be played.

Other leisure activities included carriage driving, tennis, and bicycling.[5]

Role in the history of the Federal Reserve

Jekyll Island was the location of a meeting in November 1910 in which draft legislation was written to create a central banking system for the United States. Following the Panic of 1907, banking reform became a major issue in the United States. Senator Nelson Aldrich (R-RI), chairman of the National Monetary Commission, went to Europe for almost two years to study that continent's banking systems. Upon his return, he brought together many of the country's leading financiers to Jekyll Island to discuss monetary policy and the banking system, drafting legislation which was introduced in Congress as the "Aldrich Plan". Some ideas from the Aldrich Plan were later incorporated into the Federal Reserve Act.

On the evening of November 22, 1910, Sen. Aldrich and A.P. Andrews (Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department), Paul Warburg (a naturalized German representing Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), Frank A. Vanderlip (president of the National City Bank of New York), Henry P. Davison (senior partner of J. P. Morgan Company), Charles D. Norton (president of the Morgan-dominated First National Bank of New York), and Benjamin Strong (representing J. P. Morgan), together representing about one quarter of the world's wealth at the time, left Hoboken, New Jersey on a train in complete secrecy, dropping their last names in favor of first names, or code names, so no one would discover who they all were. The excuse for such powerful representatives and wealth was to go on a duck hunting trip on Jekyll Island.

Forbes magazine founder Bertie Charles Forbes wrote several years later:

Picture a party of the nation's greatest bankers stealing out of New York on a private railroad car under cover of darkness, stealthily riding hundreds of miles South, embarking on a mysterious launch, sneaking onto an island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the names of not one of them was once mentioned, lest the servants learn the identity and disclose to the world this strangest, most secret expedition in the history of American finance. I am not romancing; I am giving to the world, for the first time, the real story of how the famous Aldrich currency report, the foundation of our new currency system, was written ... The utmost secrecy was enjoined upon all. The public must not glean a hint of what was to be done. Senator Aldrich notified each one to go quietly into a private car of which the railroad had received orders to draw up on an unfrequented platform. Off the party set. New York's ubiquitous reporters had been foiled ... Nelson (Aldrich) had confided to Henry, Frank, Paul and Piatt that he was to keep them locked up at Jekyll Island, out of the rest of the world, until they had evolved and compiled a scientific currency system for the United States, the real birth of the present Federal Reserve System, the plan done on Jekyll Island in the conference with Paul, Frank and Henry ... Warburg is the link that binds the Aldrich system and the present system together. He more than any one man has made the system possible as a working reality.[6]

Decline and closure of the club

The Great Depression in 1929 caused great changes on Jekyll Island. This depression touched even the very wealthy across the country and membership in an exclusive club became an extravagance. Membership dropped slowly through the 1930s as the depression continued.

With the financial situation of the club worsening, the executive committee decided to create a new level of club membership in 1933. A more affordable level of membership, the Associate membership was designed to fit the needs, and pocketbook, of anyone. It was an attempt to draw in new and younger people as well as to draw more members back to the clubhouse. This new membership did revitalize the club membership roster, although only for a brief period.

World War II was the final blow to the life of the Jekyll Island Club. The club opened as usual for the 1942 season. However, by the beginning of March it was announced there would be an early close to the season due to the club's financial situation and the strain the war had on the labor situation. The 1942 season would turn out to be the final season for the Jekyll Island Club.

There was hope by the president that the Club might be reopened after the war with renewed interest. However, in 1946 the state of Georgia entered the picture. The state's revenue commissioner, Melvin E. Thompson, wanted to purchase one of Georgia's barrier islands and open it to the public as a state park. Finally, on June 2, 1947, the state purchased the island through a condemnation order for $675,000 (or approximately $5,563,416 in 2003 dollars).[7]

The club was turned into a public resort by the state, but closed by 1971, a financial failure. It was made a historic landmark in 1978 and restored and reopened as the Radisson Jekyll Island Club Hotel in 1985. Radisson ceased managing the hotel some years later, and it currently operates as the Jekyll Island Club Resort.

List of members

During the club's inception, a limit of 100 members was imposed to ensure the club's exclusiveness. During the financially difficult Great Depression period, the club began referring to its members as founders and created the new Associate Membership. This membership was purchased at a lower price, but with all of the benefits that the founders enjoyed, and limited to a total of 150.

This list includes many of the most notable members and is not exhaustive.[3] [8]

MemberBiographyYears
1890–1931
American politician, daughter Abby married John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1912–1915
Owner of Howland & Aspinwall1886–1886
Lloyd Aspinwall Jr. Heir to Lloyd Aspinwall1886–1892
Founder of First National Bank of the City of New York predecessor to Citibank 1901–1931
Francis Bartlett 1886–1911
Frances Bartow 1931–1945
Anson Beard 1927–1929
John Eugene du Bignon 1886–1896
1886–1911
1912–1921
1892–1912
President of the Singer Manufacturing Company between 1889 and 1905. 1901–1919
Marion Bourne 1919–1937
Marjorie Bourne 1920–1929
Robert Elbert Bourne 1926–1929
Robert Brewster Son of Benjamin Brewster (financier) an early Standard Oil Trustee1912–1939
Charles S. Brown 1924–1935
McEvers Bayard Brown 1886–1926
John Claflin 1886–1912, 1921–1938
1916–1924
Florence Higinbotham Crane 1919–1940
Founder of R.T. Crane & Bro., a Chicago-based manufacturer of valves and pipes that would later become an aerospace and plumbing manufacturer. 1911–1931
Robert Fulton Cutting 1923–1934
1886–1912
Charles M. Daniels 1924–1932
1887–1902
John Eugene du Bignon 1886–1896
Duncan Steuart Ellsworth 1895–1908
1915–1924
1886–1903
Walton Ferguson 1887–1922
Walton Ferguson Jr. 1902–1906
Founder of Marshall Field's department stores. 1886–1906
Newton Sobieski Finney 1886–1897
Michael Gavin 1924–1933
1886–1897
New York real estate developer and director of The Chemical Bank. He had residences at 591 Fifth Avenue, New York and seasonal residences at Tuxedo Park, New York and Ochre Point in Newport, Rhode Island1886–1899
Frank H. Goodyear Chairman of the board of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad Co., Buffalo, New York and lumber business magnate. 1902–1907
Josephine Goodyear 1909–1915
Frank H. Goodyear Jr. 1916–1930
1899–1933
1895–1916
Philanthropist and one of four sons of Stephen V. Harkness, a harness-maker who invested in the forerunner of Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller's oil company 1911–1923
1886–1921
1888–1916
Mary Hill 1916–1921
Bayard C. Hoppin 1925–1931
Gerard B. Hoppin 1923–1938
1919–1941
Henry Howland 1886–1901
Dr. Walter James 1917–1927
Walter Jennings 1926–1933
1888–1908
1898–1909
Charles Lanier 1886–1911
Cornelius "Connie" Lee 1919–1947
1886–1886, 1888–1891
John Magee 1893–1908
George Macy Founder of The Heritage Press1902–1918
Valentine Everit Macy 1909–1927
Charles Stewart Maurice 1886–1924
Margaret Maurice 1924–1947
1891–1936
Gordon McKay 1891–1903
1886–1913
Philanthropist 1913–1943
William Fellowes Morgan 1925–1934
Richard Ogden 1886–1892
1894–1909
1891–1921
Bernie Prentice 1928–1947
Today, best known for the Pulitzer Prizes. Pulitzer was a journalist. 1886–1911
American financier, was a co-founder of Standard Oil with his older brother John D. Rockefeller. 1905–1922
1903–1917
Dr. Frederick Shattuck 1912–1929
1904–1907
Hester Shrady 1908–1916
1915–1918, 1925–1929
President of the Southern Railway 1898–1906
George Baker St. George 1925–1933
William Strassburger 1919–1924
Alexander Thayer 1929–1937
1912–1920
The first son of William Henry Vanderbilt, an American industrialist and philanthropist who built his wealth in shipping and railroads, and grandson of "The Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The second son of William Henry Vanderbilt, from whom he inherited $55 million, and grandson of "The Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1886–1902
William Warren Vaughn 1919–1931
George Whitney 1928–1941

Associate Members:(This class of membership was adopted in 1933)

MemberYears
William Truman Aldrich 1933-?
Lynford Biddle 1928–1933
John Foster Dulles1933-?
Robert Gardner ?
?
?
1933-?

Presidents

Jekyll Island Club Historic District

Jekyll Island Club Historic District is a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) historic district and National Historic Landmark District in Glynn County, Georgia. Located on the west side of Jekyll Island, the 240-acre (97.1 hectares) district is roughly bordered by Riverview Drive to the west, and the long arc of Stable Road (Old Village Boulevard) to the north, east and south. It contains thirty-three contributing properties from the Jekyll Island Club, including the separately-NRHP-listed Rockefeller Cottage and Faith Chapel. Jekyll Island Club Historic District was added to the NRHP on January 20, 1972, and was designated a national historic landmark district on June 2, 1978.

From 1967 to 1968, Savannah landscape architect Clermont Huger Lee created a master development plan with the goal to restore the area known as "Millionaire's Village" to its 1910–1929 era. Though not fully implemented, Lee's plans served as a foundation in the redevelopment of today's Jekyll Island Historic District.[9]

Contributing properties

Key:
Separately NRHP-listed
Non-contributing properties
Demolished properties
NameImageYearLocation/
GPS Coordinates
ArchitectArchitectural
Style
MaterialNotes
Baker-Crane Carriage HouseBuilt 1890101 James RoadQueen Anne RevivalBuilt for Frederic Baker, whose adjacent cottage, Solterra,
burned in 1914
Later owned by Richard Teller Crane Jr., who demolished
Solterra to build Crane Cottage
Boat Engineer's CottageBuilt 191621 Pier RoadBuilt by the club to house its boat engineer, John Courier
Currently houses a gift shop, Something For Everyone
Bookkeeper's Cottage
Stephens Cottage
Built 190032 Pier Road
31.059°N -81.4186°W
Built by the club to house its bookkeeper, Julius A. Falk
Currently houses The Cottage Gift Shop
Chauffeurs' DormitoryBuilt 190517 Pier Road
31.0587°N -81.4195°W
Currently houses Island House Gifts
The rear addition houses Jekyll Island U.S. Post Office
Cherokee Cottage
Shrady-James Cottage
Built 1904191 Old Plantation Road
31.061°N -81.4221°W
Carrere & HastingsItalian Renaissance RevivalBuilt for George Frederick Shrady Sr.
Later owned by Dr. Walter Belknap James
Cherokee Cottage in 1911:
Club HouseBuilt 1887371 Riverview Drive
31.0591°N -81.422°W
Charles A. AlexanderQueen Anne RevivalIn an 1886 perspective drawing:
Club House AnnexBuilt 1901–1903Old Plantation Road
31.0591°N -81.4215°W
Charles Alling GiffordItalian Renaissance Revival"The Annex" featured eight 4-bedroom condominium apartments
on the first and second floors, twenty guest bedrooms on the
third floor, and servant bedrooms on the fourth floor.[10]
CommissaryBuilt 190024 Pier Road
31.059°N -81.4201°W
Currently houses Just By Hand, a handicrafts shop
Crane CottageBuilt 1917–1918371 Riverview Drive
31.0606°N -81.4226°W
Adler & DanglerMediterranean Revivalstucco over brick
Ludowici tile roof
Built for Richard Teller Crane Jr., on the site
of Solterra (burned 1914)

Courtyard:
DuBignon Cottage
Club Cottage
Built 1884
Relocated 1896
171 Old Plantation Road
31.0588°N -81.4206°W
Stick StyleOnly building that pre-dated 1886 establishment of the Club
Originally stood on site of San Souci Apartments
Relocated to present site, 1896
Faith Chapel

Built 1904
Renovated 1970
181 Old Plantation Road
31.0606°N -81.4217°W
Howard Constable[11] Shingle Stylewood shinglesThe tower's terracotta gargoyles are based on
those of Notre-Dame de Paris:


King David Window by Louis Comfort Tiffany:
Furness CottageBuilt 1889–1891
Renovated 1930
Renovated 2017
101 Old Plantation Road
31.0567°N -81.4196°W
Furness, Evans & CompanyShingle Stylewood shinglesBuilt for Walter Rogers Furness
Relocated 1896 and 1930.
Served as Jekyll Island Infirmary, 1930–1942
Damaged by Hurricane Matthew, 2016
Georgia Sea Turtle Center
Jekyll Island Power Plant
Built 1903
Renovated 2006
214 Stable Road
31.0599°N -81.4195°W
brickThe Georgia Sea Turtle Center opened in 2007
Goodyear CottageBuilt 1903–1906
Renovated 1973
321 Riverview Drive
31.0565°N -81.4218°W
Carrere & HastingsItalian Renaissance RevivalGoodyear Cottage in 1911:
Gould Casino AuditoriumBuilt 1902
Remodeled 1957
203 Old Plantation Road
31.0622°N -81.4225°W
Walter BlairBuilt by Edwin Gould as indoor tennis courts.
Hollybourne CottageBuilt 1890379 Riverview Drive
31.0622°N -81.423°W
William H. Daytabby concreteBuilt for Charles Stewart Maurice
Hollybourne Cottage in 1911:
Jekyll Island Authority
Administration Building
100 James RoadBuilt as a dormitory for married servants.
Currently houses offices of the Jekyll Island Authority
Jekyll Island Authority OfficesJames Road
31.0598°N -81.4204°W
Built as a dormitory for single servants.
Jekyll Island Museum
Club Stables
Built 1897
Renovated 2017–2019
100 Stable Road
31.0583°N -81.4179°W
Reopened April 27, 2019, following a two-year renovation
Jekyll Island U.S. Post Office
(rear of Chauffeur's Dormitory)
17-A Pier Road
31.0588°N -81.421°W
Mistletoe Cottage
Claflin-Porter Cottage
Built 1900Riverview Drive
31.0568°N -81.4218°W
Charles Alling Gifford Dutch Colonial Revivalwood shinglesBuilt for Henry Kirke Porter
John Claflin purchased it in 1926
Morgan Tennis CourtBuilt 1930151 Old Plantation Road
31.058°N -81.4206°W
Named for Club president J. P. Morgan Jr.
Moss CottageBuilt 1896341 Riverview Drive
31.0558°N -81.4216°W
Dutch Colonial Revivalwood shinglesBuilt for William Struthers Jr.
Later owned by George Henry Macy
Moss Cottage in 1911:
Pump HouseBuilt 1925south of Morgan Tennis Court
Rockefeller Cottage
Indian Mound Cottage
Built 1892
Expanded 1910
361 Riverview Drive
31.0575°N -81.4219°W
Shingle Stylewood shinglesRockefeller Cottage in 1911:
Built for Gordon McKay
Bought by William Rockefeller, 1905.
San Souci ApartmentsBuilt 1896365 Pier Road
31.0582°N -81.4214°W
Charles Alling GiffordShingle Stylewood shinglesBuilt by Henry Baldwin Hyde as a 6-unit condominium
J. P. Morgan owned one of the apartments
San Souci Boiler HouseBuilt 1896150 Old Plantation Road
31.0579°N -81.421°W
Visible at far right in a 1911 photograph:
Built to provide heat and hot water for San
Souci Apartments
Currently houses the Island Sweets Shoppe
Solterra DovecoteBuilt 1890
Restored 2016[12]
Old Plantation RoadVisible just left of center in a 1911 photograph:
Built for Frederic Baker
Survived 1914 burning of Solterra Cottage
Staff Dining Hall191013 Pier Road
31.0587°N -81.4202°W
Currently houses Remember When
Villa MariannaBuilt 1929201 Old Plantation Road
31.062°N -81.4223°W
Mogens Tvede Mediterranean RevivalBuilt for Frank Miller Gould, named for his daughter
Villa OpsoBuilt 1927381 Riverview Drive
31.0629°N -81.4232°W
John Russell PopeMediterranean RevivalBuilt for Walter Jennings
Takes its name from the Guale name for Jekyll Island
Wharf
Jekyll Landing Wharf
1 Pier Road
31.0582°N -81.4242°W
Wharf in 1911:

Non-contributing and demolished properties

NameImageYearLocation/
GPS Coordinates
ArchitectArchitectural
Style
MaterialNotes
Brown Cottage1888
Demolished 1944
North Riverview Drive
31.0689°N -81.426°W
William Burnet TuthillQueen Anne RevivalBuilt for McEvers Bayard Brown
Chichota CottageBuilt 1897
Demolished 1941
375 Riverview Drive
31.0613°N -81.4233°W
Beaux-ArtsBuilt for David H. King Jr.
Entrance through a courtyard with swimming pool
Edwin Gould purchased the cottage in 1900

Chichota's entrance steps, flanked by lions,
and its swimming pool survive
Dairy BarnBuilt 1910North Riverview Drive
31.0783°N -81.4237°W
Remnants of the dairy barn's concrete grain silo survive
Doc's Snack Shop
James Memorial Swimming Pool1927west of Club HouseNamed for Club president Dr. Walter Belknap James
Jekyll Island AmphitheaterBuilt 1973North Stable Road
31.0648°N -81.42°W
Public Restroombehind Faith Chapel
Pulitzer-Albright CottageBuilt 1897–1898[13]
Expanded 1899, 1904
Burned 1950s
Riverview Drive
31.0555°N -81.4212°W
Charles Alling GiffordItalian Renaissance RevivalBuilt for Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer relocated the Furness Cottage to his building plot, 1896,
and lived in it while his cottage was under construction
Later owned by John J. Albright
Red RowNorth Stable Road
31.0648°N -81.42°W
Ten houses built by the Club for African-American employees
The workers were displaced in 1947, when Georgia purchased
the island
Jekyll Island Amphitheater was built on the site in 1973
SchoolhouseBuilt 1901Schoolhouse LaneChildren of white employees were taught at the schoolhouse.
A schoolhouse for black children was later built.
Skeet HouseBuilt 1930s
Relocated 2014
Pier Road
31.059°N -81.4201°W
Relocated about from former shooting range
Currently stands beside DuBignon Cottage
Solterra
Baker Cottage
Built 1890–1891
Burned 1914
Riverview Drive
31.0606°N -81.423°W
Queen Anne RevivalBuilt for Frederic Baker
Crane Cottage (1918) was built on Solterras's site
Solterra Dovecote and the Baker-Crane Carriage House survive
Union ChapelBuilt 1898
Relocated 1904
North Stable RoadAfrican-American church, near Red Row
Water Tower/WindmillBuilt 1891
Destroyed 1898
Rebuilt 1898
Destroyed 1928
Old Plantation RoadLocated just east of the Club House
Both water towers/windmills were destroyed by hurricanes

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jekyll Island . 2008-06-21 . National Historic Landmark summary listing . National Park Service . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080619021210/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1218&ResourceType=District . 2008-06-19 .
  2. Jekyll Island Club Hotel. Historic Hotels of America. January 28, 2014.
  3. Book: Hutto, Richard Jay . Their Gilded Cage: The Jekyll Island Club Members . 2006. Henchard Press, Ltd. . Macon, Georgia . 978-0-9770912-2-5 .
  4. Book: Konolige. Kit & Frederica. The power of their glory : America's ruling class, the Episcopalians. 1978. Wyden Books. New York. 0883261553. 79. 1st. registration.
  5. Book: McCash, William Barton and June Hall McCash. The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires . registration. University of Georgia Press . 1989 . 0-8203-1070-0.
  6. Book: Griffin, G. Edward . The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve . American Media . 1998 . 0-912986-21-2.
  7. Book: Bagwell, Tyler E.. Images of America. Jekyll Island, A State Park. Arcadia Publishing. 2001. 6–8. 0-7385-0572-2.
  8. Book: Bagwell, Tyler E.. Images of America. The Jekyll Island Club. Arcadia Publishing. 1998. 978-0-7385-1796-4.
  9. Georgia Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects. Ced Dolder. WHO WAS CLERMONT LEE AND WHY SHOULD ANYONE CARE?. La Letter. XXVII. 1. 18–19. 16 February 2020.
  10. The National Register of Historic Places Supplement 1974 (National Park Service, 1972), p. 120.
  11. Book: McCash, June Hall . The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony . University of Georgia Press . 1998 . 9780820319285 . 57 .
  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmT7CYx0HJs Solterra Dove Cote
  13. Real Estate Record and Builders Guide, vol. 59, no. 1,525 (June 5, 1897), New York, C. W. Sweet, p. 970.