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Jekyll Island Club
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 from John Eugune 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 for 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 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. Today, Jekyll Island Club Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
List of Members
Members
- John J. Albright 1890-1931
- Nelson W. Aldrich 1912-1915
- Lloyd Aspinwall 1886-1886
- Lloyd Aspinwall Jr. 1886-1892
- George Fisher Baker 1901-1931
- Francis Bartlett 1886-1911
- Frances Bartow 1931-1945
- Anson Beard 1927-1929
- John Eugene du Bignon 1886-1896
- Cornelius Newton Bliss 1886-1911
- Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr. 1912-1921
- Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden 1892-1912
- Frederick Gilbert Bourne 1901-1919
- Marion Bourne 1919-1937
- Marjorie Bourne 1920-1929
- Robert Elbert Bourne 1926-1929
- Robert Brewster 1912-1939
- Charles S. Brown 1924-1935
- McEvers Bayard Brown 1886-1926
- John Claflin 1886-1912, 1921-1938
- Charles Richard Crane 1919-1940
- Richard T. Crane 1911-1931
- Robert Fulton Cutting 1923-1934
- William Bayard Cutting 1886-1912
- Charles M. Daniels 1924-1932
- Charles Deering 1887-1902
- John Eugene du Bignon 1886-1896
- Duncan Steuart Ellsworth 1895-1908
- James Ellsworth 1915-1924
- Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank 1886-1903
- Walton Ferguson 1887-1922
- Walton Ferguson Jr. 1902-1906
- Marshall Field 1886-1906
- Newton Sobieski Finney 1886-1897
- Michael Gavin 1924-1933
- Ogden Goelet 1886-1897
- Robert Goelet 1886-1899
- Frank H. Goodyear 1902-1907
- Josephine Goodyear 1909-1915
- Frank H. Goodyear Jr. 1916-1930
- Edwin Gould 1899-1933
- George Jay Gould I 1895-1916
- Edward S. Harkness 1911-1923
- Edmund B. Hayes 1886-1921
- James J. Hill 1888-1916
- Mary Hill 1916-1921
- Bayard C. Hoppin 1925-1931
- Gerard B. Hoppin 1923-1938
- Alanson Houghton 1919-1941
- Henry Howland 1886-1901
- Dr. Walter James 1917-1927
- Walter Jennings 1926-1933
- Morris Ketchum Jesup 1888-1908
- John Stewart Kennedy 1898-1909
- Thomas W. Lamont
- Charles Lanier 1886-1911
- Cornelius "Connie" Lee 1919-1947
- Pierre Lorillard IV 1886-1886, 1888-1891
- John Magee 1893-1908
- George Macy 1902-1918
- Valentine Everit Macy 1909-1927
- Charles Stewart Maurice 1886-1924
- Margaret Maurice 1924-1947
- Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. 1891-1936
- Gordon McKay 1891-1903
- JP Morgan 1886-1913
- J. P. Morgan Jr. 1913-1943
- William Fellowes Morgan 1925-1934
- Richard Ogden 1886-1892
- Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst 1894-1909
- Henry Kirke Porter 1891-1921
- Bernie Prentice 1928-1947
- Joseph Pulitzer
- William Rockefeller 1905-1922
- Grant B. Schley 1903-1917
- Dr. Frederick Shattuck 1912-1929
- George Frederick Shrady Sr. 1904-1907
- Hester Shrady 1908-1916
- Frederick Snow 1915-1918, 1925-1929
- Baker St. George 1925-1933
- William Strassburger 1919-1924
- Alexander Thayer 1929-1937
- Theodore Newton Vail 1912-1920
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II
- William Kissam Vanderbilt 1886-1902
- William Warren Vaughn 1919-1931
- George Whitney 1928-1941