100 Years in Pictures

Chester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.The 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. Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity The Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadJohn Sherwin Jr.Donald and Ruth Goodman1982: The TempleDetroit ShorewayCleveland OrchestraCatharine Monroe LewisCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.John SherwinTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.1994: Great Lakes Science Museum2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Ronald B. RichardTremontOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.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.Cleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suit1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland Institute of ArtEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910An east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationHarold T. ClarkRaymond Q. ArmingtonHalprin worksheetFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Steven A. MinterApollo’s FireDancing WheelsGoff in a rare moment of leisureThe State TheatreRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.2010: Hawken SchoolCleveland Play HouseNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. NewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Cleveland Film SocietyFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkL. Dale Dorney Fund2004: Cleveland Museum 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 crash1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.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 Green City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. 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.Harry Coulby Funds1968: Karamu House2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. Stokes with his brother Louis (left)The Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.The Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 19381959: Cleveland Institute of MusicChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.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.1968: Holden ArboretumBusiness 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.Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesEdgewater Park under state stewardship2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicJames R. GarfieldCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Uptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Kent H. SmithThe RetreatProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the rise2007: Great Lakes Theater Festival1997: Cleveland Clinic Foundation1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior Viaduct1986: Cain Park1967: Blossom Music CenterManchester 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 West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Global Cleveland’s welcome centerA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Gordon Park in its heydayAlfred M. Rankin Jr.GroundWorks Dance TheaterThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetThe Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Treu-Mart FundMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeMAGNET 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. 2009: 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).St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsA. E. Convers FundAlthough 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.Progressive Field at GatewayBarbara Haas RawsonDancer/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.Hunter MorrisonJames A. RatnerA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Michael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandSinging AngelsCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933The 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 passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956Slavic VillageCleveland Ballet1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyJacqueline F. WoodsCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Cleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerDr. 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 A. NortonCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherGoff 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.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.Lexington VillageBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.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.Frances Southworth Goff1976: Sokol HallGlenville High School students, 1914Great Lakes Science CenterA new generation of Circle fansThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Raymond C. Moley27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyGoff 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. J. Kimball JohnsonMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentThe 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 sideFairfaxCleveland Museum of ArtBy 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.1985: Cleveland State UniversityGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.The Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central city2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the Circle1976: Cleveland Play HouseMalcolm L. McBrideCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyThe 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 foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.The cast of Nicholas NicklebyCarlton K. MatsonCleveland Orchestra1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandGeorge and Janet Voinovich2004: The Gathering PlaceKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleCharles P. BoltonLeyton E. CarterPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 19601984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Malvin E. BankEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioTri-C JazzFest, 19931998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadGreat Lakes Theater FestivalInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929H. Stuart HarrisonJohn J. DwyerR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. 2005: ideastreamNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchSherwick FundGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937A 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.Homer C. WadsworthJames D. WilliamsonFoundation 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. Ohio CityWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. 1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Karamu HouseFred S. McConnellThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.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 yearsLake-Geauga FundThe 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. Advocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioF. James and Rita Rechin FundPlayhouse Square, c. 1969Barbecue 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.John L. McChordLakeview TerraceCleveland Institute of MusicA 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.Innovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Cleveland Public ArtPalace Theatre lobbyThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumHarry Goldblatt, M.D.1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityMOCA ClevelandAndrew 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.Charles A. RatnerMaster 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 Hough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.2006: MOCA ClevelandSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtHolsey Gates HandysideGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.1972: Huron Road MallDavid GoldbergSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Tri-C groundbreaking, 1966Kenneth W. Clement M.D.Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Ohio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Commencement at Tri-C, 1975Stanley C. Pace1973: Severance HallThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Presbyterian 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.An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.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.Barack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Richard W. PogueSPACES2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housing2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsCarl W. BrandMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.After their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Clean water advocates, 1968Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. LAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareBelle SherwinReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.An examination room at the Glenville Health Clinic1996: Old Stone ChurchAddressing 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 1929Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Evergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsIvan 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.1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Architectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumEllwood H. FisherNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli Sundell1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter Fund