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Explore upstairs and downstairs life in St. Paul’s largest house. Built for railroad titan James J. Hill, this 36,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion was once the largest private residence in the state.
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Born in southern Ontario on September 16, 1838, to Irish immigrant parents, young Hill suffered a bow and arrow injury at age nine and lost sight in his right eye for the rest of his life. Hill's father died when the boy was 14, so Jim Hill began clerking in local shops before setting off to seek his fortune. He began his career in transportation i...
After 20 years working in the shipping business on the Mississippi and Red rivers, Hill and several other investors purchased the nearly bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1878. Over the next two decades, he worked relentlessly to push the line north to Canada and then west across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Renamed the Great N...
Hill pursued a broad range of other business interests: coal and iron ore mining, Great Lakes and Pacific Ocean shipping, banking and finance, agriculture, and milling. In later years, he explained his economic philosophy in the book Highways of Progressand continued the campaign to convert the farmers of the Northwest to the principles of scientif...
In 1864 Hill met a waitress who was working at the Merchants Hotel in St. Paul, where he often ate. Mary Theresa Mehegan, born in 1846 in New York City, was the child of Irish immigrants who settled in the frontier town of St. Paul in 1850. Hill sent Mary to finishing school in Milwaukee before their marriage in 1867 to prepare her for the impendin...
Physically, Hill was short and barrel-chested, with a long torso and short legs. People commented on his piercing gaze and said he held their attention with his quick, animated speech, gesturing expansively and jabbing the air with a hand or finger to make his point. He was well-known for his blunt, direct manner, and many commented on his occasion...
After amassing a personal fortune estimated at $63 million and over $200 million in related assets, James J. Hill died in his Summit Avenue home on May 29, 1916, one of the wealthiest and most powerful figures of America’s Gilded Age. At the end of his life, Hill was asked by a newspaper reporter to reveal the secret of his success. Hill responded ...
Learn about the historic mansion built by railroad magnate James J. Hill in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1891. See photos, architecture, interior, and history of the National Historic Landmark and museum.
Explore upstairs and downstairs life in St. Paul’s largest house. Built for railroad titan James J. Hill, this 36,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion was once the largest private residence in the state.
Tour the 1891 mansion of railroad tycoon James J. Hill and his family in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Learn about their history, the architecture and the artifacts of this gilded age treasure.
Learn about the history and features of the James J. Hill House, a National Historic Landmark and the former home of a railroad tycoon. Find media contacts, images and a b-roll video for your coverage.
Explore the iconic 36,000-square-foot mansion built in 1891 for railroad titan James J. Hill. Visitors will marvel at the intricate wood carvings, stained glass windows and other surprises that adorn this gilded age treasure.
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