100 Years in Pictures

TremontJohn L. McChordHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” 1968: Holden ArboretumFoundation 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. Catharine Monroe LewisStanley C. Pace2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyManchester 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.Clean water advocates, 1968Captain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Edgewater Park under state stewardshipWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub 1973: Severance Hall1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. 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. Ronald B. RichardOhio CityMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentMalvin E. BankF. James and Rita Rechin FundSherwick FundGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Cleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Contaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Goff 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.An examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicThe 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.Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.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.Mort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.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.Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.SPACESFrances Southworth GoffStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Under the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Tri-C JazzFest, 1993An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryGreat Lakes Theater Festival1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhood2006: MOCA ClevelandSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Cleveland Play HouseSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksJohn J. DwyerUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.A new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Entrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.The 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumApollo’s FireGlenville High School students, 1914Kent H. SmithJ. Kimball JohnsonTreu-Mart FundParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒19232006: Cleveland Clinic Foundation1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkFred S. McConnellArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.An assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineCarlton K. Matson1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Members of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityBelle Sherwin2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.1985: Cleveland State UniversityFirst 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.MOCA ClevelandCleveland 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 State TheatreThe 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 Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical Society1996: Old Stone ChurchRaymond C. Moley1967: Blossom Music CenterLexington VillageLake-Geauga FundKaramu HouseCharles P. BoltonThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Leyton E. CarterMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.The Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.1968: Karamu HouseThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerCarl W. BrandThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administration1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtPresbyterian 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.LAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Robert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Nancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchDavid GoldbergMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Global Cleveland’s welcome centerMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsBy 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.Harold T. Clark2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyJames D. Williamson1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadMaster 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 Hunter MorrisonProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseStokes with his brother Louis (left)New Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Lakeview TerraceTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Planning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Barack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Dispersed 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.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 1929Artist’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.On his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Cleveland Institute of Music2004: The Gathering PlaceAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Charles A. RatnerThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.2005: ideastream2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsThe Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Proposed townhomes for East 118th StreetUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Playhouse Square, c. 1969Kenneth W. Clement M.D.2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.L. Dale Dorney FundThe 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 sideHolsey Gates HandysideMAGNET 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. James A. RatnerOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.The 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 Harry Coulby FundsCleveland Public ArtEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Donald and Ruth GoodmanSlavic VillageThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Cleveland mayor Ralph S. Locher27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Commencement at Tri-C, 19752003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyThe 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.1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. The Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938The foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationEllwood H. FisherThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlRichard W. PogueThe cast of Nicholas Nickleby1976: Cleveland Play HouseSinging AngelsThe restored Hungarian Cultural Garden1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellThe 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. 1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.George and Janet Voinovich1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandSupport 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 crashGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Jacqueline F. WoodsTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Famed 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).Goff in a rare moment of leisureDr. 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.GroundWorks Dance TheaterVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Harry Goldblatt, M.D.Ralph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. John Sherwin Jr.Progressive Field at Gateway1986: Cain ParkBarbara Haas RawsonThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Detroit ShorewayInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorCleveland BalletThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Kucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 19771991: Hathaway Brown SchoolJames A. NortonCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior Viaduct1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerCleveland Museum of ArtJohn SherwinNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Sophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientH. Stuart HarrisonFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitPalace Theatre lobbyCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyHalprin worksheetJames R. GarfieldCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteGordon Park in its heyday1982: The TempleSteven A. MinterAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Raymond Q. ArmingtonKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy Naegele1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. 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.Cleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University Circle2010: Hawken SchoolFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundCleveland Institute of Art1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College1976: Sokol HallMalcolm L. McBrideCleveland Film Society2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtFairfax1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health Innovation1972: Huron Road MallThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Hough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.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.The Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.A new generation of Circle fansCleveland OrchestraBarbecue 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.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.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. A. E. Convers FundA 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.Ohio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Advocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioHomer C. WadsworthCleveland OrchestraGreat Lakes Science CenterThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956The RetreatCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteDancing Wheels2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.Andrew 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.