100 Years in Pictures

Business attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Innovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorSherwick FundCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Kent H. SmithGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937The Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.An assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the decline2006: MOCA ClevelandSinging AngelsNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Clean water advocates, 1968Sophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientDavid Goldberg2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtFamed 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).2004: Cleveland Museum of Art1976: Cleveland Play HouseThe 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 RetreatBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.James D. WilliamsonManchester 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.1968: Holden ArboretumTremontSlavic VillageCommencement at Tri-C, 1975Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 J. Kimball Johnson1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsRaymond Q. ArmingtonContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965An owner-employee of the Evergreen Laundry1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolFrances Southworth GoffCleveland Public ArtThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationDetroit ShorewayFirst 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.The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.1967: Blossom Music CenterCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.The Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyPlayhouse Square, c. 1969Barbara Haas RawsonR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971The Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.2002: Cleveland Institute of Music2004: The Gathering PlaceDr. 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.Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Linking 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.Proposed townhomes for East 118th StreetWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. In 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.Ralph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. 1994: Great Lakes Science Museum1986: Cain ParkCleveland Play HouseAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenCleveland Film SocietyA 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.H. Stuart HarrisonThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Michael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Lakeview TerraceHarry Goldblatt, M.D.Stanley C. PaceGlenville High School students, 1914Charles P. BoltonLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.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. Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtJohn Sherwin1973: Severance HallJohn J. DwyerOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Members of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchAddressing 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 1929The cast of Nicholas Nickleby2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterDonald and Ruth GoodmanFairfaxGoff 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 foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleCleveland Institute of ArtPresbyterian 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.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.New Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareJacqueline F. WoodsRock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Harold T. ClarkTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 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 yearsThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.An examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicLexington VillageCarl W. Brand2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University Circle2010: Hawken SchoolThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development Corporation2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyRaymond C. MoleyCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Progressive Field at Gateway1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumTri-C JazzFest, 1993Hunter MorrisonGeorge and Janet VoinovichDancer/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.Richard W. PogueKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977CommunityFoundationAtlas.org website1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicRonald B. Richard1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.A. E. Convers FundHolsey Gates HandysideAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioEdgewater Park under state stewardshipMalvin E. Bank1982: The TempleAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.1968: Karamu HouseOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Evergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsDancing WheelsTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 19801982: Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherThe 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.Green City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesCatharine Monroe LewisAndrew 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.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.1996: Old Stone ChurchGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestA new generation of Circle fansL. Dale Dorney FundBy 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.Treu-Mart FundCleveland Orchestra2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Belle SherwinProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalHarry Coulby FundsMaster 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 MAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Ohio CityFoundation 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. James A. NortonOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.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.Leyton E. CarterMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.Cleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior Viaduct1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationThe 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 Gordon Park in its heydayStokes with his brother Louis (left)Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerGreat Lakes Theater Festival1976: Sokol HallCleveland Museum of ArtCleveland OrchestraFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956GroundWorks Dance TheaterKenneth W. Clement M.D.1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadThe 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. Uptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.The 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Although 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.Halprin worksheet2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Privately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityF. James and Rita Rechin FundKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.James R. GarfieldAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsKaramu HouseThe 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 sideThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938The Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Charles A. Ratner1972: Huron Road MallAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development team1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990The 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. SPACESSupport 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 crashCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration 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.Cool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Ellwood H. FisherParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.The Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.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.Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929NewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.The Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little Italy2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentLake-Geauga Fund1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtJohn L. McChordAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Entrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Albert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.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 2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenJames A. RatnerCleveland BalletHomer C. WadsworthThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadCarlton K. MatsonCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitApollo’s FireUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University Circle1985: Cleveland State UniversityCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.MOCA ClevelandPalace Theatre lobbyThe State Theatre2005: ideastreamGoff in a rare moment of leisure2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.Wade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub A 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.Cleveland Institute of Music1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellDispersed 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.Captain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Fred S. McConnellMalcolm L. McBrideTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Great Lakes Science CenterCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropy1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumSteven A. MinterJohn Sherwin Jr.