The Jekyll Island Club Hotel... A Quick Look Around

Tycoons, politicians and socialites came to Jekyll Island and the Jekyll Island Club Hotel at the turn of the 20th century.  Jekyll Island was the playground where the super rich enjoyed
the remote club's exclusive and posh surroundings and ample game hunting in a temperate setting. Frequent visitors, J.P. Morgan, William Rockefeller, Joseph Pulitzer and William K. Vanderbilt embody the fabulous wealth acquired by business leaders, bankers and newspaper magnates during the Gilded Age.  

The Jekyll Island
Club Hotel.







Croquet is played on the lawn in front of the hotel.

The first club was built is

the decorative Queen Anne

 Style with a corner turret.

This grand old hotel
has a sun room.

Inside, I admire the hotel's

intricate woodwork.

A Boar Head is mounted

above the hotel's

fireplace.

The bar is ready for

Happy Hour.

Hand carved spindles
show century old
craftsmanship.








With so many rich and powerful business men regularly visiting, Jekyll Island Club Hotel was the site of historic events including the first transatlantic phone call placed by AT&T president Theodore Vail on January 25, 1915.