100 Years in Pictures

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.Katharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleTri-C groundbreaking, 1966The original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadLakeview TerraceContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsMaster 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 The bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.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 SPACESCleveland Play HouseThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Playhouse Square, c. 1969Charles A. RatnerThe 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.Hough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Barbecue 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.Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Cleveland Orchestra2005: ideastreamJ. Kimball Johnson1972: Huron Road MallFamed 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).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.Malvin E. BankAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977Apollo’s FireDancing WheelsUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.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.Belle Sherwin2010: Hawken SchoolJames R. GarfieldTreu-Mart FundEllwood H. FisherMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. Burke1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumManchester 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 Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerKent H. SmithCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Foundation 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. Ralph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. 2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellSupport 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 crashAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicRonald B. Richard1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956The 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 sideGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumCleveland Ballet1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Frances Southworth GoffChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.The Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Cleveland Institute of Music1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtJohn J. DwyerAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyGeorge and Janet VoinovichInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929The Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityOhio City2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentTri-C JazzFest, 1993Stokes with his brother Louis (left)Palace Theatre lobbyDonald and Ruth GoodmanGlobal Cleveland’s welcome center1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsBarbara Haas RawsonA 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.James D. Williamson1996: Old Stone ChurchRaymond C. MoleyHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” 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.Lexington VillageFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamHarry Coulby FundsAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Barack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007David GoldbergEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Mort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.Karamu HouseMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentCarl 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 Corporation2004: The Gathering PlaceThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Gordon Park in its heyday1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Raymond Q. ArmingtonSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland Avenue1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.The Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Goff in a rare moment of leisureFairfax2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtDetroit ShorewayHomer C. WadsworthSlavic Village1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandSinging AngelsThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.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.Malcolm L. McBrideIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.An assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineH. Stuart HarrisonCleveland Public ArtSteven A. MinterAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioAndrew 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.A. E. Convers FundCleveland 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 yearsAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteJohn SherwinOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.Cleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.LAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public Square2006: MOCA ClevelandUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Cleveland Film SocietyMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Protest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the risePlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.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.Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Dispersed 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.1982: The TempleCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012The Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyCleveland OrchestraThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.John Sherwin Jr.Projects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitJohn L. McChordNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.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. 1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitor1973: Severance HallGreat Lakes Theater FestivalF. James and Rita Rechin FundGoff 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. Kenneth W. Clement M.D.Ohio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchThe State Theatre1976: Sokol HallBy 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.1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Harold T. Clark1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietySold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the Circle2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationFirst 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 CircleFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleProgressive Field at GatewayStanley C. PaceGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Evergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. TremontThe Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Hunter MorrisonThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterMAGNET 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. Holsey Gates HandysideL. Dale Dorney FundR. M. Fischer’s Sports Stacks2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico City1967: Blossom Music CenterHarry Goldblatt, M.D.Alfred M. Rankin Jr.1968: Holden ArboretumOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Great Lakes Science CenterThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 19901964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandCatharine Monroe LewisTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Sherwick FundCleveland Museum of ArtLeyton E. CarterAddressing 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 1929Dancer/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.GroundWorks Dance TheaterUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtIvan 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.Business attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationLake-Geauga Fund2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterEdgewater Park under state stewardshipCleveland Institute of ArtArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 1985: Cleveland State UniversityAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Jacqueline F. WoodsHalprin worksheetMOCA ClevelandCleveland 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.Fred S. McConnellArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.1968: Karamu HouseMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923A new generation of Circle fansTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. Welcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Cleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Cool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938Proposed townhomes for East 118th StreetCarlton K. MatsonEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioRichard W. PogueThe 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. Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.1976: Cleveland Play HouseThe 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 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.1986: Cain ParkTitle 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.Charles P. BoltonCarl W. Brand2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsCommencement at Tri-C, 1975Wade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub The Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineClean water advocates, 1968University Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.James A. Ratner1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolGlenville High School students, 1914James A. Norton2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalThe Retreat