100 Years in Pictures

John Sherwin1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and Properties1996: Old Stone ChurchIvan 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 Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyAddressing 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 1929Alfred M. Rankin Jr.The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Linking 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.A new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Robert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesApollo’s FireFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitor27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsCharles P. BoltonJacqueline F. WoodsIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.R. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksJames A. NortonCleveland 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 Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Malvin E. BankGoff 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.On December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumBy 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.Tri-C JazzFest, 1993On his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Playhouse Square, c. 1969Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareGroundWorks Dance Theater2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationJohn J. DwyerTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Cleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Cleveland Public ArtSinging AngelsNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.George and Janet VoinovichCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.Kenneth W. Clement M.D.2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicHarry Goldblatt, M.D.Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy Naegele2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalCharles A. RatnerLeyton E. Carter2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityProposed 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.Cleveland Play HouseGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Edgewater Park under state stewardshipCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. 1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadDavid GoldbergHalprin worksheetLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsProgressive Field at GatewayAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977Gordon Park in its heydayCommencement at Tri-C, 1975New Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli Sundell2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Captain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.The 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumHunter Morrison1968: Holden Arboretum2005: ideastream1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtPalace Theatre lobbyMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” 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.Church Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.FairfaxThe 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. The Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Architectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Harry Coulby FundsThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Glenville High School students, 1914Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Advocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒19231982: The TempleTitle 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.2004: The Gathering PlaceKent H. Smith1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural History1985: Cleveland State UniversityHomer C. WadsworthF. James and Rita Rechin FundCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration H. Stuart HarrisonOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Raymond Q. ArmingtonJames R. GarfieldChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.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.1967: Blossom Music CenterHolsey Gates HandysideThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationHarold T. ClarkA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Reinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.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.The Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerGoff in a rare moment of leisure1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandMaster 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 1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.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 St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.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 foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.L. Dale Dorney FundCleveland Institute of Music1976: Cleveland Play HouseContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965John Sherwin Jr.Cleveland OrchestraCleveland BalletThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationBarbecue 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 Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.John L. McChordGoff 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. Karamu HouseCarl W. Brand1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeLake-Geauga FundFirst 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.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.Slavic VillageMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.The restored Hungarian Cultural GardenPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Frank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentCleveland 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, OhioTremontFoundation 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. Sherwick FundCatharine Monroe Lewis2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central city2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Carlton K. MatsonThe 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 sideCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherFrances Southworth GoffCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.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.Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980A 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, 1966Cleveland Institute of ArtBelle SherwinManchester 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.Malcolm L. McBride1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Barack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Andrew 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.1986: Cain ParkSupport 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 grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtBarbara Haas RawsonThe cast of Nicholas Nickleby2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationDonald and Ruth GoodmanMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.The RetreatWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub J. Kimball JohnsonTreu-Mart FundAn examination room at the Glenville Health Clinic1961: Benjamin Rose Institute1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.The State TheatreStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 Tom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 1968: Karamu House1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumClean water advocates, 1968Great Lakes Theater FestivalSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientEllwood H. Fisher1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicMOCA ClevelandFamed 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).1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtFred S. McConnellCleveland OrchestraProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. 2010: Hawken SchoolCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The Nutcracker2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. Stokes with his brother Louis (left)Mayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyRichard W. PogueThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution center2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtJames A. RatnerThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Ohio CityHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.A “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellLexington VillageCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.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.Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityThe 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 MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleSteven A. MinterLakeview TerraceRonald B. RichardFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhood1973: Severance HallStanley C. PaceA new generation of Circle fansCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteThe 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. 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.Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleCleveland Film SocietySPACESProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseA 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.1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumRaymond C. Moley1976: Sokol Hall2006: MOCA ClevelandGreat Lakes Science CenterVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.The Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.University Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamCleveland Museum of Art1972: Huron Road MallJames D. WilliamsonCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductDr. 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.Dancing WheelsCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.A. E. Convers FundThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Michael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Detroit Shoreway