100 Years in Pictures

L. Dale Dorney FundChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesF. James and Rita Rechin FundPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.LAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public Square1985: Cleveland State UniversityAlthough 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.James A. NortonHomer C. WadsworthThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenCarl W. BrandManchester 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.Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteRichard W. PogueReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Dispersed 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.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. Fairfax2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.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. Singing AngelsFamed 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).Hunter Morrison1982: The TempleHarry Goldblatt, M.D.SPACES2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtCarlton K. MatsonFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitCharles P. BoltonPresbyterian 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.Kucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977Slavic VillageNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellJohn J. DwyerTri-C JazzFest, 1993Goff 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.Detroit ShorewayEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910The Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationJames R. GarfieldProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseCleveland OrchestraA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Great Lakes Science CenterCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933John Sherwin Jr.By 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.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.Cleveland Film Society1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsProgressive Field at Gateway1968: Karamu House1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadKaramu HouseCharles A. RatnerThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumRaymond C. MoleyLeyton E. CarterJohn SherwinWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Ohio CityMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.John L. McChordA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellBarbara Haas RawsonThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeThe 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 Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityCleveland Museum of ArtThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleJ. Kimball JohnsonEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioDavid GoldbergInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitor2004: The Gathering PlaceLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.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.Apollo’s FireEdgewater Park under state stewardshipAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Dancing WheelsMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.The RetreatVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Donald and Ruth GoodmanCleveland Institute of MusicCleveland BalletGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.The 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.The grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990University Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Tom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetMalvin E. Bank2010: Case Western Reserve University1976: Cleveland Play HouseFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.Belle SherwinTremontMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. Burke2001: Cleveland Botanical Garden1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural History1964: Garden Center of Greater Cleveland2005: ideastreamFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Great Lakes Theater FestivalLexington Village2010: Hawken SchoolThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.1968: Holden ArboretumGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. Andrew 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.1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyStanley C. PaceCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.The Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.2006: MOCA ClevelandStokes with his brother Louis (left)Lakeview TerraceGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Carl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration 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.James D. WilliamsonA. E. Convers FundAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Steven A. MinterThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Gordon Park in its heydayAn owner-employee of the Evergreen Laundry2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.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 yearsEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsGoff in a rare moment of leisure1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumThe State TheatreUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietySupport 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 crashAddressing 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 1929Michael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Kenneth W. Clement M.D.1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtKent H. SmithAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” The 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.The Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Harry Coulby FundsNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchFoundation 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. Cleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.MOCA ClevelandCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University Circle1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandFred S. McConnellEllwood H. FisherThe 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 side2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts1972: Huron Road Mall2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientHalprin worksheetMalcolm L. McBrideKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Raymond Q. ArmingtonAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioCleveland Play HouseCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Harold T. Clark1996: Old Stone ChurchParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Cleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.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. Frances Southworth Goff1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolLinking 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.Architectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971The 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 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 The Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Dancer/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.Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Cleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Alfred M. Rankin Jr.2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterTitle 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.Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929The Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.NewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Sherwick FundOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Global Cleveland’s welcome centerThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956Master 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 1986: Cain Park1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumH. Stuart HarrisonWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music series1973: Severance HallStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websitePlayhouse Square, c. 19691997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationPalace Theatre lobbyCleveland Public ArtJacqueline F. Woods2002: Cleveland Institute of Music1967: Blossom Music CenterHolsey Gates HandysideGlenville High School students, 1914Welcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. 2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom Mulready1976: Sokol HallAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.James A. RatnerGeorge and Janet VoinovichThe 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 East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationCleveland Institute of ArtPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960A 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.Tri-C groundbreaking, 1966Cleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980A 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.St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Ronald B. Richard1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkLake-Geauga FundCleveland OrchestraOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 20122006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.The cast of Nicholas NicklebyIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.Treu-Mart FundCatharine Monroe LewisThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938A burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Frank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationA new generation of Circle fansRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteClean water advocates, 1968Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyIvan 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.The Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.GroundWorks Dance TheaterCommencement at Tri-C, 1975