Set two to five acres back from the avenue, which was paved with Medina sandstone, the mansions seemed to float amid spacious, landscaped grounds.

[3] Families living along "Millionaires' Row" included those of John D. Rockefeller (during the period, 1868–84),[3] Sylvester T. Everett, Isaac N. Pennock I (inventor of the first steel railway car in the US), arc light inventor Charles F. Brush, George Worthington, Horace Weddell, Marcus Hanna, Ambrose Swasey, Amasa Stone, John Hay (personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State under William McKinley), Jeptha Wade (Cleveland benefactor and founder of Western Union Telegraph), Samuel Augustus Fuller (steel industrialist), Alfred Atmore Pope (iron industrialist and art collector), Charles E.J.

Charles Lathrop Pack is credited with at least part of the development of Euclid Avenue, on which he lived from about 1888 to the early years of the 20th century, into a thriving business district.

According to Eyle, "In 1913, an article about Charles reported that 'inside of ten years...the [one-story, commercial buildings that he had developed at the lower end of Euclid Avenue] have disappeared.

"[5] As Cleveland's commercial district began to push eastward along Euclid Avenue, families moved east towards University Circle.

By the 1960s, the street that once rivaled Fifth Avenue as the most expensive address in the United States was a two-mile (3 km) long slum of commercial buildings and substandard housing.

Eight houses from the era remain on Euclid, including the Samuel Mather and Howe mansions owned and used by Cleveland State University.

In the script, Captain Brackett sends a grass skirt to one "Amelia Fortuna, 325 Euclid Avenue, Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio".

The refurbishing also entailed development – as of November 2009[update], more than $3.3 billion worth of completed or proposed urban renewal projects lined the street and surrounding area.

[9] Euclid Avenue, originally known as part of the Buffalo Stage Road,[10] has carried various route designations throughout history: Cigliano, Jan (1991).