Cumberland Island National Seashore

[Second Hand Pat]

More later

[Second Hand Pat]

Looks like a well in the bottom picture. Perhaps the building is a pump house.

It does, guess I should have asked more questions. Heck of a long way to haul water.

[strawberryblonde]

Some of the outbuildings of Dungeness. Any idea the purpose for these.

I'm pretty sure the building on the right is a guest house (more like mansion to me, but hey, they built BIG back then!)

On the left, the circular structure is most likely one of 2 original, 2 story sections of yet another guest house. Picture them on each corner of the front of the home and then fill in the middle section of the house with doors and windows and you'll get a good idea of what the place looked like. On the far left of the bottom pic you can see the remaining chimney from that house too. It must have been quite impressive back in the day!

Oh, and how did I know that round thingy was actually one of a pair of 2 story "turrets" on a house? Easy peasy, my brother bought a house with those turrets on it and started restoring it 20 years ago. My Mom actually claimed the first completely renovated turret as her own personal space and LOVED the awesome views from the second story. She joked about feeling like she was Rapunzel when she sat up there in her reading room. LOL

[Disgirl]

Interesting pics Pat! A very historic house in our city, Tryon Palace, built in late 1700's, has a round building like that only brick. It was used as a pigeon house, to raise them in for people to eat! Maybe the other larger building was a detached kitchen?
Barb

[Darrell Ward]

I found a picture of this house in 1958 before it burned in 1959. The other one looks much earlier, but it's undated. Looks like a different house, perhaps it was remodeled at some point?

[Disgirl]

Wow, that was some house, I mean mansion!
Barb

[strawberryblonde]

I found a picture of this house in 1958 before it burned in 1959. The other one looks much earlier, but it's undated. Looks like a different house, perhaps it was remodeled at some point?

Aha! The main house had one of those turret-like thingies on it too! They were really popular in the early 1900's...guess they reminded people of the castles found all over Europe.

[Darrell Ward]

Yeah, it's a shame it burned. I love old mansions like that. Such extravagance speaks of a time the world will never see again. It's simply far too expensive even for the mega rich to build like that in the modern world. Modern mansions use far cheaper materials. I guess I'm weird. I like reading old tombstones too. Can't wait to see more of your pics Pat! Very cool.

[Second Hand Pat]

Hey guys, the pictures of the ruined outbuilding could have been a recreation building. Check out this link about 2/3 down the page.

http://www.camdencounty.org/html/cumberland_island.html

[Darrell Ward]

Yep. It very well could be. It would interesting to snoop around that place, or at least talk to someone that still remembers the place before it was all ruined. You could then easily piece a lot of this stuff together. I'm sure they wouldn't let people snoop around though without special permits and permission, and I'm sure most all of the people that remember facts about the place are no longer around.

[Second Hand Pat]

I see similaries between these two pictures. The link above this post ids this as the recreation building.

recreationsm.jpg

[Second Hand Pat]

Yep. It very well could be. It would interesting to snoop around that place, or at least talk to someone that still remembers the place before it was all ruined. You could then easily piece a lot of this stuff together. I'm sure they wouldn't let people snoop around though without special permits and permission, and I'm sure most all of the people that remember facts about the place are no longer around.

Darrell, there is a fair amount of history captioned in the park service displays and the rangers seem to know a lot. Everyone seems open to snooping

[Darrell Ward]

Yes. Even though they are likely years between these pictures, I agree it looks like the same place.

[Second Hand Pat]

Yes. Even though they are likely years between these pictures, I agree it looks like the same place.

The attachment was taken in 2000.

[Darrell Ward]

Well, they cleaned up around it a bit in 11 years, but in the meantime, the dang roof fell in! LOL!