Cleveland's Millionaires' Row (Images of America) Paperback – October 14, 2019

Great overview of Cleveland’s gilded age (late 1800’s to early 1900’s) when captains of industry and innovation called the city home.

This book does an excellent job of detailing the long list of people who occupied homes on millionaires row. They include addresses of almost if not all the homes they talk about, so you can look them up on a Google Earth while you read along, which makes the book even more enjoyable to read. Great updates on homes that are still standing today.

Perfectly illustrates / places the reader in the world , as if you’re walking from public square eastward the entire book. Very informational and some of his images are the only pictures available of some of these lost beauties. I could line up in my head where everything would have been, before this it may not have been possible.

Great book, nice photos

Pretty good book about Cleveland's Millionaire's Row. As with all the books from this publisher, they are written by local people who expound about a locale's history. As such, it's not a scholarly book nor a comprehensive one. It makes a for nice fun light read.Sometimes the information is a little sketch (meaning we need more), and while the photos are very nice to see, it leaves you wanting more in depth history and more photos. That's probably a good thing.Cleveland needs a coffee table or picture book quality about the great mansions that it once had and now lost, and I hope it will get one.

What a disappointment. Images were horrible quality. Literally looked like some high school kid taped old photos to a piece of paper and ran it though a copy machine. In 2019 there is plenty of technology available to spruce up old photographs so readers can make out what it is they’re looking at. And the blurbs accompanying each did little to tell the story of how the rapidly growing post civil war economy created the new upper class community that developed in Cleveland and why it was chosen as the epicenter of the rust belt. They were basically mini bios about rich people and advertisements for present day businesses. This was really a missed opportunity to tell a poignant story about the heydey of a city that has since fell into very hard times and, for us architecture geeks, show some of the most beautiful Victorian era homes ever constructed.

I have a little research project that involves Millionaire's Row in Cleveland. This book was very helpful.