100 Years in Pictures

1973: Severance Hall2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenApollo’s FireTreu-Mart FundWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Cleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933James A. NortonAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007L. Dale Dorney FundInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorHarry Coulby Funds2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.John J. DwyerA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CirclePlayhouse Square, c. 1969Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Robert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Projects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. 2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicSlavic VillageCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Great Lakes Theater FestivalF. James and Rita Rechin FundSteven A. MinterFred S. McConnell1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum2006: Cleveland Clinic Foundation1972: Huron Road MallCleveland Film SocietyFoundation 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. Captain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Kucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 19772010: Case Western Reserve UniversityWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesJames A. RatnerPalace Theatre lobbyMalvin E. BankStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 Commencement at Tri-C, 1975The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956The RetreatThe 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. Hough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.David GoldbergArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyOhio CityThe 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.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.2004: The Gathering PlaceThe 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 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. 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. Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtSupport 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 crashGeorge and Janet VoinovichCleveland OrchestraMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Nancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchThe State TheatreA 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.1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad2005: ideastreamGlenville High School students, 1914Evergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsA new generation of Circle fansFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingJames R. GarfieldBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationGoff in a rare moment of leisureThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.1976: Cleveland Play HouseArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartments1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerDancing WheelsThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.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.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.Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkTri-C JazzFest, 1993Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestStokes with his brother Louis (left)Harold T. ClarkGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Ronald B. RichardNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.1968: Karamu HouseProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetCarlton K. MatsonInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityFirst 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.2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtTremontTitle 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 Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareKaramu HouseHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Contaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 19651985: Cleveland State UniversityCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsLake-Geauga FundDancer/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 original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadCarl W. BrandCharles P. BoltonEdgewater Park under state stewardship1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partner1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Famed 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).Homer C. WadsworthSherwick FundGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Ivan 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.A. E. Convers FundPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960John L. McChordAddressing 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 19291967: Blossom Music CenterDonald and Ruth GoodmanUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.A “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John Morell2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterGroundWorks Dance TheaterAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationMAGNET 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. Cleveland Museum of ArtThe Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Kent H. SmithUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, Ohio2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Barbara Haas RawsonThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleThe 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 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 sideChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryTri-C groundbreaking, 1966After their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.James D. WilliamsonCleveland Public ArtCharles A. RatnerFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteLinking 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.Albert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.1982: The Temple2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Singing AngelsMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt payment2010: Hawken SchoolCleveland 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 cast of Nicholas NicklebyCleveland Institute of ArtNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicJohn Sherwin Jr.A new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.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.The foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.The bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.Stanley C. PaceLakeview TerraceReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Cleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherLexington VillageLeyton E. CarterManchester 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.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.The Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerA 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.Privately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityRichard W. Pogue2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyHunter MorrisonChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.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.Ellwood H. FisherGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. 2006: MOCA ClevelandThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. On his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Cleveland Institute of MusicAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditorium1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Progressive Field at Gateway1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumGreat Lakes Science CenterProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the rise1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy Naegele1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesFairfaxR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksJohn SherwinJacqueline F. WoodsDr. 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.Members of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeClean water advocates, 1968The Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerRaymond C. MoleyMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyHarry Goldblatt, M.D.1968: Holden ArboretumCleveland BalletCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior Viaduct2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterDetroit Shoreway1996: Old Stone ChurchTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadySophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.MOCA ClevelandTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 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.Kenneth W. Clement M.D.1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationAlfred M. Rankin Jr.H. Stuart HarrisonCatharine Monroe LewisBy 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.Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Michael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Master 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 Raymond Q. ArmingtonHalprin worksheet1976: Sokol HallEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910J. Kimball JohnsonThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Cleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.SPACESThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938Belle SherwinOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland Avenue1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.The Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.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.Cleveland OrchestraBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleBarbecue 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.1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyGordon Park in its heydayMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.1986: Cain ParkMalcolm L. McBrideFrances Southworth GoffCleveland Play HouseA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Holsey Gates HandysidePresbyterian 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.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.Carl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration 1961: Benjamin Rose Institute