Review An exceptionally perceptive look at how the rich really lived, back when they had genuinely private lives. Best of all, it is a first-rate guidebook. (Islands Magazine)A beautiful new book. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)Incorporating personal recollections, accounts from journals and correspondence, and never-before-published family photos, McCash’s highly satisfying piece of work will undoubtedly appeal to archivists, architects, and anyone curious about how the nation’s earliest generation of millionaires built―and monopolized―their own paradise on earth. (Antioch Review)McCash deserved high praise for her engaging portraits of the club members and for her deft touch for illustrations. . . . She is to be commended for breathing life once more into the Jekyll Island Cottage Colony. (Georgia Historical Quarterly) Read more From the Back Cover 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 new book, 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 the residents' interactions with one another. Read more See all Editorial Reviews
