100 Years in Pictures

MAGNET 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. 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 1929Palace Theatre lobbySt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Barack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Clean water advocates, 1968Foundation 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. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumF. James and Rita Rechin FundGreat Lakes Science CenterCarlton K. MatsonDispersed 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.Cleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 Members of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeCleveland Institute of MusicHolsey Gates HandysideJohn J. Dwyer2004: Cleveland Museum of Art2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalJohn L. McChordCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.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.George and Janet VoinovichEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsHalprin worksheetArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Raymond C. MoleyCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Ohio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Apollo’s FireCleveland 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 yearsHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Frances Southworth Goff2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenDancer/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 Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938Kenneth W. Clement M.D.Cleveland Play HouseThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University Circle27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Edgewater Park under state stewardshipPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central city2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentJames A. RatnerA 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.Dancing WheelsCleveland Institute of ArtSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the Circle1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Donald and Ruth GoodmanJames R. GarfieldTreu-Mart FundTitle 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.1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandA. E. Convers FundRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. 1956: Cleveland Institute of Art2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.2006: MOCA ClevelandPresbyterian 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.2004: The Gathering PlaceSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Harold T. ClarkAlthough 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.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 Great Lakes Theater FestivalCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.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 sideFred S. McConnellCleveland Museum of ArtThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 19901968: Karamu House1973: Severance HallContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Jacqueline F. WoodsProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Steven A. MinterDetroit ShorewayInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorIvan 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.L. Dale Dorney FundLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John Morell2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationStanley C. PaceThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.1976: Cleveland Play HouseHarry Coulby FundsGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒19231985: Cleveland State UniversityAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Church Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Ohio CityThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Glenville High School students, 1914James D. WilliamsonAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development Corporation1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryGoff 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.Dr. 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.Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy Naegele1996: Old Stone ChurchThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.The State TheatreLeyton E. CarterRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Projects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkSherwick FundThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Welcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineCommencement at Tri-C, 1975Michael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Advocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioCleveland OrchestraWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Gordon Park in its heydayEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910The 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. 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 Goff 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. Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyCleveland Public Art2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland Film SocietyChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 19372000: Therapeutic Riding CenterJohn Sherwin Jr.The Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationMalvin E. BankHomer C. WadsworthThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. H. Stuart HarrisonHarry Goldblatt, M.D.Cleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherA 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.Playhouse Square, c. 1969Barbecue 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.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.Green City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. Protest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseAndrew 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.Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suit1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.1991: Hathaway Brown School1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the decline1976: Sokol HallTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsLinking 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.Karamu HouseInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CitySlavic VillageOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.R. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryCatharine Monroe LewisSPACESJ. Kimball JohnsonA new generation of Circle fansKent H. SmithTri-C groundbreaking, 1966The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.New Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellCleveland Orchestra1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietySinging AngelsThe 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.Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity GroundWorks Dance TheaterTri-C JazzFest, 1993In 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 20122000: Cleveland Zoological Society1982: The TempleEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, Ohio1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationFamed 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).1972: Huron Road MallRichard W. PogueAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesLakeview TerraceThe RetreatBelle SherwinMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt payment1967: Blossom Music CenterHunter MorrisonInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929The Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.David GoldbergRonald B. RichardCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 19332010: Hawken SchoolThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Malcolm L. McBrideBy 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.Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of Art2005: ideastreamThe restored Hungarian Cultural Garden1968: Holden ArboretumA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Lake-Geauga FundMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Goff in a rare moment of leisureGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerRaymond Q. ArmingtonFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.Mort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.MAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.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.CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteBarbara Haas RawsonLexington VillageProgressive Field at GatewayThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.On December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.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.Ellwood H. FisherUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.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 crashMOCA ClevelandFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housing2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicThe 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. The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956Stokes with his brother Louis (left)1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandCharles A. RatnerCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyFairfaxCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyThe 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 John SherwinJames A. NortonCharles P. BoltonKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 19772002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center1986: Cain ParkA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress 1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.The foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Carl W. BrandMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsThe 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.Cleveland BalletReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Tremont