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Walter Rogers Furness Cottage

Walter Rogers Furness Cottage, Historic house in Jekyll Island, Georgia, United States.

The Walter Rogers Furness Cottage is a residential building on Jekyll Island with two and a half stories and twelve rooms. The structure features a J-shaped covered porch and a Juliet balcony as distinctive architectural elements.

Walter Rogers Furness, the youngest of the Jekyll Island Club's fifty-three founding members, built this cottage in 1890–1891 as his winter residence. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer bought it in 1896 and lived in it for two seasons while his own villa was under construction. Frank H. Goodyear Jr. moved it about 400 m in 1930, equipped it as an infirmary, and donated it to the club in memory of his mother; it served as the Josephine Goodyear Memorial Infirmary until 1942.

The cottage's name recalls Walter Rogers Furness, the youngest of the fifty-three founding members of the Jekyll Island Club in 1886, who built it as his own winter house. Later it was called the Old Infirmary, and the pale blue paint now on its shingles matches the colour it wore as the Josephine Goodyear Memorial Infirmary in the 1930s and 1940s.

The building underwent major renovations in 2017 and now displays a pale blue exterior that is easy to spot. Inside you will find a museum visitor center and a gift shop.

The cottage was designed by architect Walter Rogers Furness, not by Joseph Pulitzer, who bought it in 1896 and lived there for two winters while his own twenty-six-room villa was built. Pulitzer then shifted it about 125 ft and used it for servants; John J. Albright moved it again, about 70 ft, in 1914.

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