Tybee Island Strand Cottages Historic District, Historic cottage district in Tybee Island, Georgia, United States.

Tybee Island Strand Cottages Historic District, also called The Strand, holds 18 cottages between Butler Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean, running from just past 12th Street to 14th Street, between the sites of the former Ocean House and Tybee Hotel. The wood-framed summer cottages sit on raised wooden piers, with hipped roofs, wrap-around porches and rear ells; the Rodgers-Fulmer Cottage at 1210 Butler Avenue keeps its pressed tin shingles, wooden shutters and a boardwalk leading over the dunes to the beach.

The Tybee Improvement Company purchased the island in 1873 and subdivided it into lots to establish a seaside resort, with most cottages built during that era or shortly after. This early resort layout remains recognizable in the street patterns and building arrangement today.

The district's name comes from the narrow lots the Tybee Improvement Company laid out in 1873, each meant for a single cottage with a shared path at the front steps. The cottages were summer homes for Savannah families, and the walkways ran from the Ocean House hotel to the Tybee Hotel. Three lots, 77, 80 and 81, still follow the 1873 plan.

The district runs between Butler Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean, from just past 12th Street to 14th Street, on Tybee Island. The cottages are private homes, so visitors see them from the street and the communal walkways and boardwalk that run from the former Ocean House site to the former Tybee Hotel site.

The narrow connecting paths between the cottages were designed from the start as part of the original resort plan and created a hidden network linking all buildings together. These walkways still follow their original routes and reveal how early planners envisioned movement and connection within the community.