Villa Ospo

Villa Ospo. Jekyll Island Club National Historic Landmark. , A Warm Welcome , Walter Jennings, a former Standard Oil director, built Villa Ospo, as a winter getaway for his family in 1927., Walter and his wife, Jean, were very involved with the Jekyll Island Club and often greeted newcomers and visitors to the island, turning Villa Ospo into a center of hospitality. The club members considered themselves a close-knit family. With three sisters who were also club members, that was especially true for Jennings. In 1927, just a year after joining the club, Jennings assumed the club presidency following the death of his brother-in-law, Dr. Walter James., Villa Ospo was designed by John Russell Pope, architect of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. this Roaring Twenties cottage is one of the most modern structures in the island’s National Historic Landmark District. The building has ten bedrooms, five bathrooms and a magnificent great room. The Grounds include an alley lined with cypress trees and a secret garden with a lily pond., Did you know? Villa Ospo is Jekyll’s only historic cottage originally built with an attached garage. Jennings and fellow auto enthusiasts would bring their cars on their yachts, or send them by train to be brought out by barge.