Showplace of America: Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910 (Ohio)

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In cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society

Euclid Avenue, which runs through the heart of downtown Cleveland, was once for 60 years one of the vital finest residential streets of any city in 19th century The usa.  Showplace of America is the fascinating account of the upward thrust and fall of this elegant promenade, including portrayals of the eminent architects who created its opulent residences and colorful details about the lives of the wealthy people who occupied them.

The families who resided within this linear, four-mile neighborhood epitomized Midwestern grandeur in the second one half of the 19th century.  The 1893 Baedeker’s travel guide to the USA labeled it “one of the crucial beautiful place of dwelling-streets in The usa,” as others hailed it “Millionaires’ Row,” the finest avenue in the west, and the most beautiful street on the planet.”

Modeled after the grand boulevards of Europe, this magnificent neighborhood was once distinguished for the prominence of its architects in addition to the families who lived there.  Local architects Jonathan Goldsmith, Charles W. Heard, Levi T. Scofield, Charles F. Schweinfurth, and Coburn & Barnum and national firms Peabody & Stearns and McKim, Mead & White created houses that were stunning monuments to Cleveland and The usa’s growing prosperity.

Ironically, the tremendous success of Cleveland’s industry and commerce, which had nurtured the upward thrust of this grand avenue, fostered its fall.  Downtown commerce expanded along the avenue at the sacrifice of its leading entrepreneurs’ residential have.  The houses were demolished as the avenue became what is today―a neglected urban thoroughfare.  Photographs and illustrations from the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society and other repositories are published here for the first time, documenting both the glory and decline of the “showplace of The usa.”


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