Dungeness, Cumberland Island, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA

Significance: Built as the Carnegie family's "retreat" and for their entertaining.
Cumberland Island, Georgia's largest barrier island, has a long history entwined with its many different inhabitants. Evidence endures in a variety of remains and ruins, which are open to the public visitation via the National Park Service. The Dungeness ruins is what is left of a 59-room mansion built by Thomas Carnegie (brother of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie) and his wife Lucy in the 1880s. This mansion was part of a large and lavish winter estate for the Carnegie family, which included pools, a golf course, and 40 smaller buildings. A fire in 1959 reduced the mansion to ruins.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1391
Survey number: HABS GA-2160
Building/structure dates: 1884 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1959 Subsequent Work