100 Years in Pictures

Innovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Cleveland Film SocietyA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.The foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.James D. WilliamsonPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityGreat Lakes Science CenterFairfaxWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub 2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.Cleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Frank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundGoff 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. Famed 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).Manchester 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.A. E. Convers Fund1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareHarry Goldblatt, M.D.The 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumHolsey Gates HandysideNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtJ. Kimball Johnson1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryPlayhouse Square, c. 1969Captain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Cleveland 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 yearsAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical Society1976: Cleveland Play HouseJames A. RatnerR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 19372002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suit1996: Old Stone ChurchOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.TremontMAGNET 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. 1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 20072007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalDancing WheelsEllwood H. FisherLake-Geauga FundGlobal Cleveland’s welcome center1968: Karamu HouseKaramu HouseAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Green City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. The grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Ivan 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.Stokes with his brother Louis (left)Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Robert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Title 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.MAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumClean water advocates, 1968Ohio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesDancer/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.The Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.An east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationCleveland Public ArtDispersed 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.1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. 1986: Cain Park1972: Huron Road Mall2006: MOCA ClevelandCleveland Institute of MusicPalace Theatre lobby1999: Western Reserve Historical Society27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleThe 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 2009: Cleveland Institute of Art1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtHunter MorrisonCharles P. BoltonGroundWorks Dance TheaterDavid GoldbergContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.First 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.First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housing1976: Sokol HallNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchBy 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.Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerLexington Village1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadThe 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 Entrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioL. Dale Dorney FundMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Cleveland OrchestraBarbara Haas RawsonMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Charles A. RatnerThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College2010: Hawken School1982: The TempleGlenville High School students, 1914Business attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhood2000: Therapeutic Riding Center1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandFoundation 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. Frances Southworth GoffAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsSteven A. MinterSPACESAlthough 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.Architectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971The 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.Progressive Field at GatewayMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Katharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleF. James and Rita Rechin FundThe State TheatreAlfred M. Rankin Jr.The Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumTri-C JazzFest, 1993CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteCleveland Institute of ArtAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineSinging AngelsDonald and Ruth Goodman1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.Fred S. McConnell2004: The Gathering PlaceCleveland Orchestra1967: Blossom Music CenterAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.Kucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Evergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsHarold T. ClarkApollo’s FireReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity 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 1929Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestOhio CityHomer C. WadsworthUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.H. Stuart HarrisonSherwick FundLakeview TerraceLinking 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.2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration 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.The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationDr. 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.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.An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryMalcolm L. McBrideThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938The Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Michael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.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 crashProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Tom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. The foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Cleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution center1985: Cleveland State University2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicCleveland Museum of ArtCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteJames A. NortonThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationGordon Park in its heydayTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Planning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleDetroit ShorewayAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.James R. GarfieldCleveland Play HouseRichard W. PogueA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyThe 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 sideGreat Lakes Theater FestivalKenneth W. Clement M.D.Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityThe Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.John L. McChordThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Catharine Monroe LewisStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 The 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. Ralph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. 1968: Holden ArboretumTreu-Mart FundFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Commencement at Tri-C, 1975Raymond Q. ArmingtonMalvin E. BankA 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.1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandThe 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. Slavic VillageTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Halprin worksheetCarlton K. MatsonJohn J. DwyerBelle Sherwin1973: Severance HallCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.John SherwinMOCA ClevelandLeyton E. CarterLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductRonald B. RichardOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamAndrew 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.George and Janet VoinovichChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Cleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerHarry Coulby FundsCarl W. BrandArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.2005: ideastreamThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Master 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 A 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.NewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Cool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom Mulready2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.The foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Presbyterian 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.The RetreatStanley C. PaceJohn Sherwin Jr.A “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellEdgewater Park under state stewardshipKent H. SmithRaymond C. MoleyProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Cleveland Ballet1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtA new generation of Circle fansSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueJacqueline F. WoodsGoff 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.1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicGoff in a rare moment of leisureCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts