Tue 8/6 @ 7PM
Don’t you sometimes wish you could go back in time — just for a day — and take a stroll down Euclid Avenue when it was lined with elegant mansions — and trees — instead of being the relatively barren wasteland, hostile to cats, bikes and foot traffic, that it is now?
You can’t do so literally, of course, but you can do so in your imagination, fueled by a program on Cleveland’s Millionaires’ Row at the Cuyahoga County Public Library’s Parma Powers Branch. The talk, hosted by historian Alan Dutka, will explore how the street became a magnet for the wealthy and powerful, what their lives were like, how they influenced Cleveland’s social, civic and political life, and how and why the street declined, with magnificent old houses falling into decay, with almost all save a handful eventually being demolished and replaced by office buildings, parking lots, the Inner Belt and Cleveland State University. Learn where they were and what’s the today: One of the few remaining is the Stager-Beckwith Mansion, built in 1866, now the Cleveland Children’s Museum.
The program is free and open to all. Get more information here.