• Developed by C. Perry Snell, who opened it in October 1925 on 275 acres, only 39 of them above high tide at the time
  • The Vinoy Golf Club's 18-hole, par-71 course, with roots in Snell's 1920s Sunset Golf Club, later redesigned by Ron Garl
  • The Snell Isle Bridge, a Venetian-style drawbridge over Coffee Pot Bayou built in 1931 and rebuilt in 1996
  • Snell Isle Park, with a memorial to developer C. Perry Snell
  • 1920s Mediterranean Revival architecture, the style Snell chose for his own 1928 home on Brightwaters Boulevard