100 Years in Pictures

Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012The West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Albert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Harold T. Clark2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsGordon Park in its heydayHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.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.Stanley C. PaceThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.1976: Sokol HallMaster 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 Ellwood H. FisherNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 1973: Severance Hall1968: Holden ArboretumCleveland Institute of ArtSherwick Fund1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesCleveland Museum of ArtThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, Ohio1982: Cleveland Institute of Art1961: Benjamin Rose Institute1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerF. James and Rita Rechin FundAfter 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 SocietyEdgewater Park under state stewardshipTri-C JazzFest, 1993Lexington VillageChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.1986: Cain ParkRichard W. PogueBarbecue 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.George and Janet VoinovichPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central city1985: Cleveland State UniversityTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Halprin worksheetHarry Goldblatt, M.D.The Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationHomer C. WadsworthPalace Theatre lobby1967: Blossom Music CenterAndrew 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.Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Singing AngelsDispersed 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.Progressive Field at GatewayMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956James A. NortonCleveland Play House2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland Film SocietyThe 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 sideLakeview TerraceJames D. WilliamsonRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. 2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicKent H. SmithKenneth W. Clement M.D.1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 20071998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioSupport 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 crashAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Raymond Q. ArmingtonCleveland Institute of MusicThe 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 BalletThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 19381982: The TempleWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesFamed 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).MOCA ClevelandR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumA new generation of Circle fansA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Malcolm L. McBrideUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Carl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration 2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Cleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.Charles A. RatnerArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Goff 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. 2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtSlavic VillageThe 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 On December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.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. An examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicLake-Geauga FundFrances Southworth GoffH. Stuart HarrisonMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.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.Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitDonald and Ruth GoodmanHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Wade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub By 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.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodCommencement at Tri-C, 1975Steven A. MinterFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Playhouse Square, c. 1969L. Dale Dorney FundGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Mayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentDavid GoldbergCleveland 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 yearsHunter MorrisonFirst 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.Holsey Gates HandysideEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsPresbyterian 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.A 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.Cleveland Public ArtJames A. RatnerCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Dr. 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.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.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.1964: Garden Center of Greater Cleveland2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsJames R. GarfieldAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsFoundation 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. Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitor2010: Hawken SchoolIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerCatharine Monroe Lewis1976: Cleveland Play HouseAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryHarry Coulby FundsClean water advocates, 1968Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.The original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter Fund1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland OrchestraCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.To date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.The RetreatProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumFred S. McConnellEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Reinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Cleveland OrchestraSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtMAGNET 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. 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 foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Under the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Green City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.A. E. Convers Fund2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyCharles P. BoltonRonald B. RichardGreat Lakes Science Center1996: Old Stone ChurchKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 19772010: Case Western Reserve UniversityThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlCommunityFoundationAtlas.org website2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterDetroit ShorewayOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012GroundWorks Dance Theater1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.John L. McChordSPACESCarlton K. MatsonCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Jacqueline F. WoodsAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.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.On his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Grand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937John SherwinOhio CityManchester 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.J. Kimball JohnsonTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityAddressing 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 19291957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.NewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Treu-Mart Fund2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Dancing WheelsChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Belle Sherwin2004: The Gathering Place1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingJohn Sherwin Jr.Great Lakes Theater FestivalThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990The cast of Nicholas NicklebyThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenApollo’s FireContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueGoff in a rare moment of leisureCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933The 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumLeyton E. CarterBarbara Haas RawsonFairfax1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyThe State TheatreCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationJohn J. DwyerTremontMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Katharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the decline2005: ideastreamRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumThe 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 Raymond C. MoleyStokes with his brother Louis (left)Carl W. BrandGlenville High School students, 1914Welcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. 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.Cleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. A “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John Morell1968: Karamu HouseSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Cool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyIvan 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.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.Protest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the rise2006: MOCA Cleveland2001: Cleveland Botanical Garden1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsKaramu HouseMalvin E. BankThe 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. 1972: Huron Road MallLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public Square27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University Circle