Sans Souci: Club Cottage

Known as the J.P. Morgan Cottage because the Morgans, elder and younger, lived here, Sans Souci (Without Care), containing six apartments, was built in 1899 by a corporation of members of the Jekyll Island Club. Among the members who stayed here were James J. Hill, St. Paul, Minnesota, president of the Great Northern System [railroad]; Frederick G. Bourne, capitalist; Pierre Lorillard, Tuxedo Park, N.Y., tobacco magnate; J.A. Scrymser, New York, cable and telegraph promoter and a partner of J.P. Morgan in various enterprises; Robert G. Pyne, New York banker.