100 Years in Pictures

Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.Business attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationL. Dale Dorney FundThe 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. Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 19101991: Hathaway Brown SchoolWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. 2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University Circle1972: Huron Road MallA new generation of Circle fans1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938An examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.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. The restored Hungarian Cultural GardenGeorge and Janet VoinovichA 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.Barack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Homer C. WadsworthAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioMalvin E. BankMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Proposed townhomes for East 118th StreetMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Raymond Q. ArmingtonChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Leyton E. CarterAddressing 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 1929Protest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development Corporation1968: Karamu HouseRichard W. PogueA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.Frank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.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.The Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationStanley C. PaceRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquors1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon Park2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicJames A. NortonCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyThe RetreatKent H. SmithDavid GoldbergMOCA ClevelandAlthough 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 State TheatreLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public Square1973: Severance HallInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitor1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Entrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, Ohio2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 19331981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandSherwick Fund2004: The Gathering Place1996: Old Stone Church2010: Hawken SchoolA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Uptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Great Lakes Theater FestivalIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.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.Contaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965An east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesCleveland OrchestraCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Karamu HouseCleveland 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 Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.John Sherwin Jr.Cleveland Museum of ArtArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyThe 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. Kucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977University Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Green City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. The grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Cleveland Institute of Art1967: Blossom Music CenterA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923The 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 sideApollo’s FireBarbara Haas RawsonTremontCarlton K. MatsonFirst 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.Edgewater Park under state stewardshipGoff in a rare moment of leisureThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.J. Kimball Johnson2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietySt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueHalprin worksheet2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchPresbyterian 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.SPACESJohn SherwinThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineRaymond C. MoleyDetroit ShorewayThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suit1976: Cleveland Play HouseNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Tri-C JazzFest, 1993Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartments27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CirclePalace Theatre lobbyCleveland Film SocietyA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Cleveland BalletOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Holsey Gates HandysideCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The Nutcracker1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtGordon Park in its heydayGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.R. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Alfred M. Rankin Jr.Malcolm L. McBrideTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Projects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Treu-Mart FundGreat Lakes Science Center1976: Sokol HallTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity The foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamThe 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 L. McChord1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteDr. 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.Ohio CityThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.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.1982: The TempleCleveland Public Art2006: MOCA Cleveland2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryJames A. RatnerManchester 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.F. James and Rita Rechin FundCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.FairfaxJohn J. DwyerBelle Sherwin2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyCarl W. BrandThe 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 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 AngelsBy 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.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.Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 20121959: Cleveland Institute of MusicGlenville High School students, 1914On December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.Grand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Ellwood H. FisherAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution center1985: Cleveland State UniversityKenneth W. Clement M.D.A. E. Convers FundCleveland Play HousePlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtSteven A. MinterMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentStokes with his brother Louis (left)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 Ralph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. An assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleJacqueline F. WoodsFamed 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).Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Lake-Geauga FundCleveland Institute of MusicUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyClean water advocates, 1968Frances Southworth GoffCharles A. RatnerCharles P. BoltonHarold T. ClarkCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsGroundWorks Dance TheaterChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Ronald B. RichardHarry Goldblatt, M.D.After their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.The Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.The Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Donald and Ruth GoodmanAndrew 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.Reinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.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.The original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadHarry Coulby Funds1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumSupport 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 crash1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural History1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandProgressive Field at GatewayInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 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.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.2005: ideastreamFoundation 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. Wade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductPlayhouse Square, c. 19692004: Cleveland Museum of ArtHunter MorrisonJames D. Williamson1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad1968: Holden ArboretumGoff 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.Catharine Monroe LewisAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestFred S. McConnellH. Stuart HarrisonSlavic VillageDancing WheelsNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingCleveland OrchestraThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.James R. Garfield1986: Cain ParkCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteCommencement at Tri-C, 1975On his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Architectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Lakeview Terrace1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtLexington VillageMaster 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 The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyDispersed 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.