page_title: Walter Rogers Furness Cottage
section_title: Later owners and occupants
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Rogers Furness Cottage / Cottage / Later owners and occupants
caption_attribution_description: Furness Cottage, Jekyll Island Club Historic District, Jekyll Island, Georgia, U.S. This is the old infirmary. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 72000385
context_page_description: Walter Rogers Furness Cottage – also known as the "Old Infirmary" or the "Jekyll Island Infirmary" – is a Shingle Style building on Jekyll Island, in Glynn County, Georgia.
  It is one of thirty-three contributing properties in the 240-acre Jekyll Island Club Historic District. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1978.
context_section_description: Publisher Joseph Pulitzer purchased the cottage from Furness in 1896, and relocated it to his building lot at Riverview Drive and Stable Road. He lived in it through two winter "seasons" while his own twenty-six-room cottage was under construction. He then slightly moved it—about 125 ft (38 m)—and used it to house servants. Hydroelectric power magnate and art patron John J. Albright purchased the Pulitzer cottage in 1914, slightly moved the Furness cottage—about 70 ft (21 m)—and also used it to house servants.
  The parents of lumber executive Frank H. Goodyear, Jr. had built an Italian villa on the club compound in 1906. He inherited their villa, and was himself elected to membership in 1916. Goodyear purchased the Furness cottage from Albright in 1929. On January 21, 1930, he relocated the cottage to the northeast corner of Old Plantation and Stable Roads (its current site), a move of about a quarter-mile (400 m). He renovated the cottage, equipped it as an infirmary, and donated it to the club in memory of his mother. The Josephine Goodyear Memorial Infirmary was in operation until 1942, when the Jekyll Island Club went out of business.
  Georgia obtained Jekyll Island through eminent domain in 1947, and operated it as a state park for several years. The Jekyll Island Authority was created in the 1950s to conserve and develop the island. Various authority employees leased the Furness cottage as a residence, into the 1990s. 
  An independent bookstore, Jekyll Books at the Old Infirmary, occupied the cottage from 2001 to 2016. The booksellers claimed that the cottage was haunted by the ghost of a young girl, and posted a sign on the second floor: "STOP – Only ghosts are allowed on 3rd floor stairs."
  Hurricane Matthew hit Jekyll Island in October 2016, and the Furness cottage was damaged by a fallen tree. Repairs and renovations to the building were completed in Summer 2017. The restorers painted the cottage the same pale blue that it had been in the 1930s and 1940s, when it served as Jekyll Island Infirmary.
  The nearby Jekyll Island Museum moved its visitors center and gift shop to the cottage, while its own building underwent renovations. Following nearly two years of work, the Jekyll Island Museum reopened on April 27, 2019.
caption: West façade, following the 2017 renovation
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