We’re betting none of our readers have actually seen this building, but maybe the computer wizards will be able to figure out where it is using Internet smarts. Two clues: First, it’s not in South Carolina. Second, it’s not associated with Red Roof Inns (the expert searchers might understand this.)
Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live. There might even be a special prize for this one.
Last week’s photo of a turret behind live oaks was taken at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel at Jekyll Island, Ga. Hats off to Kristina Wheeler of West Ashley, Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant and George Graf of Palmyra, Va., for the correct answer. Graf shares the club’s history: “
“The Club was the site of the first transcontinental telephone call, placed by AT&T president Theodore Vail on January 25, 1915. In 1886, a group of society’s elite – the Astors, Rockefellers, Goulds and Morgans among them – incorporated to form the Jekyll Island Club, a private winter hunting retreat. Architect Charles A. Alexander was commissioned to design and build a 60-room clubhouse. A six-unit apartment building, named San Souci was erected in 1896, becoming America’s first condominiums. The Club dwindled during the Depression and the government asked members to refrain from using it for the duration of World War II. They never returned and the island was sold to the state of Georgia in 1947 and they attempted to operate it as a hotel until 1972. In 1978, the 240-acre club district was designated a National Historic Landmark. After a $20 million restoration in 1986, the Jekyll Island Club Hotel opened, bringing grand style back to the island.”
- If you have a picture with which you’d like to stump our readers, send it along to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.
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