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Coordinates: 41°39′29″N 82°49′16″W. The Jay Cooke House (also known as Cooke Castle ), is a historic summer estate house on Gibraltar Island, an island in the Lake Erie community of Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Built in 1865, it was the summer house and a favorite place of financier Jay Cooke (1821–1905).
Oct 18, 2018 · Completed in 1867, for Jay Cooke (1821-1905) and his wife Dorothea Elizabeth Allen (1827-1871). Their opulent mansion north of Philadelphia was one of the first showpiece mansions of the Gilded Age. In the Northern States, it was comparable in grandeur only to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion in Connecticut.
Jay Cooke, Civil War financier and owner of a nationally-renowned estate in Elkins Park known as Ogontz, offered to rent his vacant five-story mansion to the principals of The Chestnut Street Seminary for the sum of $15,000 a year.
Jay Cooke's mausoleum in Elkins Park, behind St. Paul's Episcopal Church, which he founded. Jay Cooke was heavily involved in financial scandals with the Canadian government and caused the Prime Minister John A. Macdonald to lose his office in the 1873 election.
Completed in 1865, this home was the vacation retreat of Jay Cooke and his family. (A historical marker located near Put-in-Bay in Ottawa County, Ohio.) HMdb.org
Sep 7, 2014 · An Erie castle: Jay Cooke Mansion. Wealthy banker built his vacation mansion on Gibraltar Island. BY MATT MARKEY. BLADE OUTDOORS EDITOR. Sep 7, 2014. 8:11 AM. 0. GIBRALTAR ISLAND, Ohio —...
Sep 7, 2014 · The now defunct Cooke Castle, located on Gibraltar Island near Put-in-Bay, is slated for renovation. The first-floor library, in the base of the tower, has a 180-degree view of the lake. Cooke...
