"designed the clubhouse in a most easily recognized by the prominent turret that seems to be watching over the clubhouse and its grounds. Today, anyone who books a night in the Jekyll Island Club Hotel's Presidential Suite can enjoy the turret. Well over 100 years after it opened in January 1888, the Jekyll Island Clubhouse, now the centerpiece of the Jekyll Island Club Resort, looks remarkably unchanged. Noticeably, there is one piece of the early clubhouse silhouette that no longer exists. The water tower and windmill that appear in many early photographs and postcard did not survive to the modern era."
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