100 Years in Pictures

Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development team1976: Cleveland Play HouseJames R. Garfield1967: Blossom Music Center1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumGroundWorks Dance TheaterTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationCleveland Film Society2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtLake-Geauga 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.The 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumGoff 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 AngelsHomer C. WadsworthGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsBarbecue 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.MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.A new generation of Circle fans1997: Cleveland Clinic Foundation2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterH. Stuart HarrisonFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Uptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Hunter Morrison2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtThe 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 Catharine Monroe LewisThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938Cleveland Public ArtFred S. McConnellProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico City2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicLakeview TerraceBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007MOCA ClevelandCleveland 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 yearsA 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.The Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryApollo’s Fire1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the decline1968: Karamu HouseGlenville High School students, 1914Foundation 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. Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Belle SherwinAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern Ohio1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyRichard W. PoguePlayhouse Square, c. 19692000: Therapeutic Riding CenterJames A. NortonCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910The foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Members of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Chester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Kucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977In 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.Tom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeOhio City27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Malcolm L. McBrideNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? bench1985: Cleveland State University1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandProgressive Field at GatewaySlavic VillageCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductCarl W. BrandTreu-Mart FundCarlton K. MatsonCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration TremontNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodKenneth W. Clement M.D.Linking 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.Ohio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Dr. 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.Architectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 19711968: Holden ArboretumHalprin worksheetCleveland Museum of ArtCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.1973: Severance HallThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956The 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 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.Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Harold T. ClarkWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Alfred M. Rankin Jr.Ralph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. F. James and Rita Rechin FundRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.1986: Cain ParkDavid GoldbergAndrew 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.Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.An east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationCleveland OrchestraR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksThe cast of Nicholas Nickleby2010: Case Western Reserve University2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Wade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub 1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum2004: The Gathering PlaceThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Grand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Charles P. BoltonCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Sherwick FundDispersed 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.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.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.An examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherJacqueline F. Woods1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadAlthough 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.George and Janet VoinovichJames D. WilliamsonPresbyterian 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.Stanley C. PaceRaymond C. MoleyInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. 1972: Huron Road MallHolsey Gates Handyside2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenMAGNET 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. J. Kimball JohnsonStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Commencement at Tri-C, 1975Great Lakes Theater FestivalFairfax2006: MOCA ClevelandBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationFrances Southworth GoffThe State TheatreBy 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 Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Detroit Shoreway1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsTri-C groundbreaking, 1966SPACESKaramu HouseCleveland BalletCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter Fund1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestManchester 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.Entrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioJohn L. McChordWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetHarry Goldblatt, M.D.Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Mort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteLexington VillageL. Dale Dorney FundClean water advocates, 1968First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentFirst 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.Reinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.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 1982: The TempleThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineKent H. SmithOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.University Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Protest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the rise1976: Sokol HallThe 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. Leyton E. CarterSupport 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 crashThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Tri-C JazzFest, 1993Contaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Goff in a rare moment of leisureGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. The Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlStokes with his brother Louis (left)Evergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panels1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesEdgewater Park under state stewardshipAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.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.John SherwinOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.Ronald B. RichardDonald and Ruth GoodmanAddressing 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 1929Malvin E. BankLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsSteven A. MinterThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadThe 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.1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929A greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.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.John Sherwin Jr.Ellwood H. FisherThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenGordon Park in its heyday1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Dancing WheelsLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareThe Retreat2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationFamed 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).Privately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central city2010: Hawken SchoolGreat Lakes Science CenterThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.2005: ideastreamFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Harry Coulby FundsDancer/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.Cleveland Institute of Music1996: Old Stone ChurchThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990The foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.A. E. Convers FundRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumThe 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. Katharine Holden Thayer by Cindy Naegele2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.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.The Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationCleveland OrchestraCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom Mulready1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.James A. RatnerThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.NewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.John J. DwyerCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.1956: Cleveland Institute of Art2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Sophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Raymond Q. ArmingtonThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.Charles A. RatnerFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerThe 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 sideSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueCleveland Institute of ArtGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerCleveland Play HousePalace Theatre lobbyMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Barbara Haas Rawson