It was the last home of Eleutheros Cooke, one of the first settlers in Sandusky and its first lawyer.

Eleutheros was father of Jay Cooke, the Civil War financier.

[1] The house is owned by the Ohio Historical Society and is open seasonally as a historic house museum that has been restored to a 1950s appearance.

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