National Historic Landmark-Jay Cooke Home

National Historic Landmark-Jay Cooke Home

From 1865 until his death, this High Victorian structure was the summer home of Jay Cooke (1821-1905), the Napoleon of Finance. During the Civil War, bond sales by financier Cooke were an important source of financial ...

Jay Cooke Mansion

Completed in 1865, this home was the vacation retreat of Jay Cooke and his family. Known as the "financier" for the Union states during the Civil War, Cooke organized a program to sell millions of dollars worth of bonds to ...

Jay Cooke

Perhaps no individual in the history of Duluth had such a dramatic influence on the port's infant development than Jay Cooke, a Philadelphia financier. Cooke's reign at the Head-of-the-Lakes was brief, but all-encompassing for commercial development.

One of Cooke's earliest achievements ...