100 Years in Pictures

John SherwinCommencement at Tri-C, 1975Frank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundLake-Geauga FundTitle 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.Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partner1976: Cleveland Play HouseCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern Ohio2009: Cleveland Institute of Art1996: Old Stone ChurchBy 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.Cleveland Institute of Music2010: Hawken SchoolThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Cool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyBarbara Haas RawsonRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. Fred S. McConnell1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural History1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadH. Stuart Harrison1968: Karamu HouseDancer/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.Projects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Innovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929The 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.1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkKaramu House1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtPlayhouse Square, c. 1969Ellwood H. FisherCleveland Play HouseStanley C. PaceOhio City2005: ideastreamOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.James D. WilliamsonGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.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.Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Uptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Great Lakes Theater FestivalMalcolm L. McBrideTri-C JazzFest, 1993Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Sophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET client1959: Cleveland Institute of Music2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyMaster 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 MOCA ClevelandAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeJames R. GarfieldDonald and Ruth GoodmanGoff 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. Halprin worksheetHolsey Gates HandysideMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Cleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.1972: Huron Road Mall2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Palace Theatre lobbyRaymond C. MoleyThe Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Carl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Cleveland Museum of ArtL. Dale Dorney Fund2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Business attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Progressive Field at GatewayA. E. Convers FundManchester 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.Cleveland Public ArtThe 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.Welcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Edgewater Park under state stewardshipGeorge and Janet VoinovichThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineMAGNET 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. Stokes with his brother Louis (left)MAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Charles A. RatnerLeyton E. Carter1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationHunter Morrison2006: MOCA ClevelandClean water advocates, 1968Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910To date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.An east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Contaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteJacqueline F. WoodsCleveland Ballet2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenHomer C. WadsworthCleveland OrchestraJ. Kimball JohnsonMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Ronald B. RichardThe 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 Under the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Apollo’s FireCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleKenneth W. Clement M.D.After their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.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 yearsThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenDetroit ShorewayLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartments1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumCharles P. BoltonNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumSteven A. Minter1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts1968: Holden ArboretumSPACESThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Great Lakes Science CenterA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress 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.Harold T. ClarkThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleCleveland Film SocietyJohn J. DwyerCarlton K. MatsonDavid GoldbergTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesGoff 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.Cleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and Properties1973: Severance HallBarbecue 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.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.2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicThe 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 sideThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlAlfred M. Rankin Jr.The Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Malvin E. BankOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Dispersed 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.F. James and Rita Rechin FundParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Slavic VillageFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitGoff in a rare moment of leisureEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panels1985: Cleveland State UniversityFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housing2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationGroundWorks Dance TheaterCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Lexington VillageThe 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 Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” 1999: Western Reserve Historical Society2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtR. M. Fischer’s Sports Stacks1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolHarry Coulby FundsThe 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. Chester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Addressing 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 1929An assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineFoundation 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. 1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938Cleveland OrchestraFrances Southworth Goff2004: The Gathering PlaceMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsAn examination room at the Glenville Health Clinic1982: The TempleThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution center1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationTreu-Mart Fund1986: Cain ParkTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. Gordon Park in its heydayCleveland Institute of ArtAlthough 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.Belle SherwinCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Support 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 Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationThe RetreatCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.John L. McChordThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyCarl W. Brand1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellIvan 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.Nancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchRaymond Q. ArmingtonKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977The State TheatreThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Kent H. SmithFamed 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).Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 1976: Sokol HallBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 20071967: Blossom Music CenterGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleA 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.1996: Dunham Tavern Museum2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Glenville High School students, 1914Mort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.Albert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.TremontJames A. RatnerReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Sherwick FundA new generation of Circle fansThe 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. Lakeview TerraceCatharine Monroe LewisThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Global Cleveland’s welcome centerThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Harry Goldblatt, M.D.Singing AngelsGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Richard W. PogueJames A. NortonProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. 2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueFairfaxJohn Sherwin Jr.Planning model of Cleveland, c. 1960The cast of Nicholas NicklebyEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.The original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Presbyterian 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.Dancing WheelsWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Privately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central city2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.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.27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleAndrew 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.Hough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.The bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.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.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.