The American Architect & Building News was the standard trade publication in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most of the issues are available for reading and, in most cases, download.

Found in the January 10, 1887 issue was this drawing of the club house for the Jekyll Island Club from the office of Charles A Alexander.

Jekyll Island is part of the Sea Islands of South Georgia. Long used for plantations, the island was transformed into a private resort in 1886 by a group of wealthy New Yorkers and Chicagoans including Jay Gould, J.P. Morgan and Marshall Field. Somehow, I suspect through his New York connections, Charles Alexander was chosen to design the first major structure of the new club, the club house. The image below, from the resort’s website, may show the founders of the club and, perhaps, our architect?

The Jekyll Island Clubhouse opened in January of 1888. Charles Alexander died in New York on May 20 of that year. I have to wonder if he was in the city on club house business.