Indian Mound

TREASURES LOST, AND SOME THAT REMAIN

Sadly, some of Jekyll’s finest homes are gone. The duBignon’s home was razed to make way for apartments. The home of newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer was lost in a fire. Two lions seem out of place today guarding the remains of the Gould family’s cottage. They lost interest in Chichota after the death of their son while hunting on the island.

Indian Mound: Gordon McKay commissioned a small home in the true tradition of a cottage, in 1892. McKay was a foresighted investor in other people’s inventions. None stands out as being revolutionary, but collectively they did make McKay a rich man. A few years later he sold his little domicile to William Rockefeller. As might be expected, the cottage ballooned into a 25-room mansion to suit the avarice of America’s ad-hoc royal family. Indian Mound even featured a safe. And it was a walk-in one, no less!

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Mistletoe: What community could be complete without at least one politician? Mistletoe Cottage was built in 1900 for Henry Kirke Porter, a manufacturer of industrial locomotives and a member of the House of Representatives for Pennsylvania. No doubt, it was from his home state that this Dutch Revival cottage was derived. The symmetrical, heavy gabled style was popular in the commonwealth but was a rare site in Georgia. A small sculpture museum on the second floor is now open to the public.