100 Years in Pictures

2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.The foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Cleveland Museum of ArtCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerDr. King speaking in Rockefeller Park on a visit to Cleveland in 1967. The previous year he had dramatized the issue of housing discrimination by moving his family into a grimy apartment on the segregated west side of Chicago and joining in protest marches into that city’s all-white neighborhoods.MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Tom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 2006: MOCA ClevelandHolsey Gates HandysideAndrew Carnegie, the “king of steel,” created a private foundation to carry out his philanthropic activities. Goff invented a simpler, more affordable mechanism to serve the charitable impulses of caring individuals of all means.Church Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.To date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.The formal entrance to the Judson Park retirement community, an independent living facility erected in 1974 next to the traditional nursing home established by the Baptist Home of Ohio in the former Bicknell mansion on Cleveland’s east sideA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress The reversal of downtown Cleveland’s stagnation, symbolized by the redevelopment of the Terminal Tower, is a 60-year-old work in progress in which the foundation has been steadily engaged.Addressing the changing socioeconomic needs of the African-American community: 20th anniversary convening of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, hosted by Cleveland in 1929Alfred M. Rankin Jr.1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationMOCA ClevelandDonald and Ruth GoodmanA landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision righted the injustice experienced by Clarence Earl Gideon, a drifter who was convicted of felony theft because he could not afford an attorney and had defended himself at trial.2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977An east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationMAGNET consultants helped Nextant Aerospace of Richmond Heights, Ohio, apply lean principles to its specialty business of remanufacturing corporate jets for an under-$5 million market. Raymond Q. ArmingtonPlayhouse Square, c. 1969First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housing2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductOhio City1985: Cleveland State UniversityCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Carl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration A new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Although the foundation’s trailblazing was a faded tradition by 1955, when this picture of the trustee bank presidents holding a replica of the foundation’s logo was snapped, its stature as the world’s first community trust remained a source of pride.Stanley C. PaceRichard W. PogueGoff in a rare moment of leisureBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Great Lakes Science CenterThe restored Hungarian Cultural Garden1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsEllwood H. FisherDetroit ShorewayFamed urban planner Lawrence Halprin (right) presented his ideas for downtown Cleveland’s redevelopment at a public forum in 1975 attended by Cleveland mayor Ralph J. Perk (center) and May Company department store president Francis Coy (left).John Sherwin Jr.Cleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.Support for humanitarian aid to the unemployed: Stone carvers responsible for the iconic pylons of the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, a rare Depression-era construction project completed in 1932 with bond funds approved before the stock market crashGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Kent H. SmithUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Singing AngelsFoundation leaders confer about how to distribute 1947 income of $614,479 to a standing list of charitable institutions and agencies. Foundation director Leyton E. Carter (third from right) is seated next to the board’s sole female member, Constance Mather Bishop. Sherwick FundThe NAACP-Cleveland’s fight for desegregation ultimately leads in 1973 to a federal lawsuit against the Cleveland public schools: the likelihood of court-ordering busing Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Jacqueline F. WoodsSteven A. MinterAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.On December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.Proposed townhomes for East 118th StreetRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.SPACES2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsFred S. McConnellSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleGoff wisely decided that an independent citizen’s committee should determine how a community foundation’s income should be distributed, rather than the directors of the foundation’s trustee bank. The grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990The Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in Bratenahl2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentCharles A. RatnerVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Business attraction: The Global Center for Health Innovation1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. Cleveland Film SocietyKaramu HouseGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. 2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central city1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellFirst grants to advance serious medical research in an era still plagued with quackery: The Cunningham Sanitarium, located at East 185th Street and Lake Shore Boulevard, c. 1928. The sanitarium offered patients access to the world’s largest hyperbaric chamber, but its claims for the benefits of oxygen therapy proved specious.Cleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933An assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationTremontJohn J. DwyerThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Cool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyTri-C JazzFest, 1993Kenneth W. Clement M.D.Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Cleveland Institute of MusicThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyJames R. GarfieldPalace Theatre lobbyCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Lexington VillageManchester Bidwell, the Pittsburgh model on which NewBridge is based, has instilled a love of learning in teens who previously did not fare well in school.Apollo’s FireThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University Circle1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtMaster planner I. M. Pei (right), Cleveland’s urban renewal director James Lister (center) and chief architect Jack Hayes at the Erieview Tower construction site, 1954 James A. NortonMalvin E. BankNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodGeorge and Janet VoinovichParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity The Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Cleveland Play HouseGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 20122005: ideastream1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.FairfaxAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Sophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 The March on Washington, August 28, 1963, at which Martin Luther King Jr. called upon the nation to make good on democracy’s promise of social and economic freedom for all citizens A. E. Convers FundReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Global Cleveland’s welcome centerCleveland Public ArtLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsBy 1929, when Cleveland laid claim to having the tallest skyscraper in the country—the Terminal Tower, evocatively captured here by famed photographer Margaret Bourke-White—the community foundation movement had spread across America.Cleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.Barbecue restaurant owner Al (Bubba) Baker received a microloan that enabled the former Browns football player to begin local distribution of his proprietary de-boned baby-back ribs.Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956Innovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Stokes with his brother Louis (left)Dancing Wheels1968: Holden ArboretumMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Halprin worksheetJames A. Ratner1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Frank H. and Nancy L. Porter Fund1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and Properties2010: Hawken SchoolMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. Burke1976: Sokol HallGordon Park in its heyday1972: Huron Road MallLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareProgressive Field at GatewayGreat Lakes Theater FestivalDispersed by police, the protesters did not succeed in halting construction, but Klunder’s martyrdom inspired the civil rights community to continue what was ultimately a victorious fight against segregation of the Cleveland public schools.CommunityFoundationAtlas.org website2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityDavid GoldbergLakeview Terrace1967: Blossom Music Center1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland1968: Karamu HouseJames D. WilliamsonCleveland OrchestraLeyton E. CarterIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.Malcolm L. McBrideCatharine Monroe LewisChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub 1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Nancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioGlenville High School students, 19141973: Severance HallThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Carl W. BrandFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkRonald B. RichardPresbyterian minister Bruce W. Klunder died while protesting the construction of three public elementary schools that Cleveland’s civil rights community believed would perpetuate a system of segregated and inferior education for African-American students.Carlton K. Matson2004: The Gathering PlaceBelle Sherwin1982: The TempleLake-Geauga FundNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Hough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.Goff did not believe that philanthropy should be the exclusive province of wealthy individuals such as Standard Oil Company founder John D. Rockefeller, a client of Goff’s former law firm.J. Kimball JohnsonBarbara Haas RawsonCleveland OrchestraInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityA satellite photograph of Lake Erie, downtown Cleveland and the Cuyahoga River valley: The foundation has learned to take the long view in helping the community craft fresh responses to persistent urban problems.Commencement at Tri-C, 1975Title VIII (the “Federal Fair Housing Act”) of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, signed by President Johnson a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., advanced the struggle for integration taking place in Cleveland’s eastern suburbs and elsewhere across the nation.The Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineThe multitude of organizational nameplates on the door to the Cleveland Foundation’s offices in the 1970s testified to its rebirth as a nexus of progressive philanthropy and an incubator of social-action programs. 1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryF. James and Rita Rechin FundRaymond C. MoleyThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditorium1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandCleveland Institute of Art1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Harry Goldblatt, M.D.The State TheatreThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.A new generation of Circle fansSlavic VillageDancer/choreographer Kapila Palihawadana of Sri Lanka, 2012 artist in residence with the Inlet Dance Theatre, conducts a master dance class at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts.MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.1996: Old Stone ChurchHunter MorrisonTreu-Mart FundArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971MAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.An examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Under the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.The West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.H. Stuart HarrisonAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Ohio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923L. Dale Dorney FundHarry Coulby FundsJohn SherwinHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Projects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. The cast of Nicholas NicklebyThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryThe Ohio Department of Natural Resources invested more than $40 million in capital improvements to the band of green spaces renamed the Cleveland Lakefront State Park. GroundWorks Dance TheaterThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.Ivan Lecaros (right), a master printmaker from Chile, puts the final touches on a drawing for a silkscreen print during his 2012 residency at Zygote Press.Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 19381961: Benjamin Rose InstituteKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy Naegele1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumFrances Southworth Goff1976: Cleveland Play HouseProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseHarold T. ClarkClean water advocates, 1968Edgewater Park under state stewardshipHomer C. Wadsworth1986: Cain ParkThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerCleveland BalletThe issues facing 21st-century Clevelanders—educational and economic opportunity, neighborhood and cultural vitality, and strong health and human services—are much the same as those with which earlier generations wrestled.2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioJohn L. McChordBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamCharles P. BoltonMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentThe RetreatThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationCleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon and Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson stumping in 2012 for the passage of the first operating levy to be placed on the ballet in 16 yearsLinking city kids to life-enriching programs: Duffy Liturgical Dance teaches children to perform and thus preserve songs and dances created by African slaves in America.Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suit