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After the Captain’s death, Morris Bradley shifted the family interests to real estate. He accumulated nearly ten million dollars’ worth of real estate, most of it in downtown Cleveland. Property was held in the Wholesale District, a series of buildings from Superior Avenue north to the lakefront. Other holdings were from West Ninth Street going southeast to Ontario Street and Public Square. In sum, the Bradleys owned much of the property over a three-block area in the heart of downtown. Just about everybody who did business off Public Square paid rent to the Bradley family.

Morris Bradley had a home at 1375 Euclid Avenue, right in the heart of Millionaire’s Row. This was an area of land that stretched from Public Square and extended east several miles. The richest folks in Cleveland built spectacular mansions on the available land. Among the residents were John D. Rockefeller, one of the wealthiest men in America, and Marcus Hanna, the political boss of Ohio and future United States senator. The Bradleys were right at home.