100 Years in Pictures

Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Commencement at Tri-C, 19751961: Benjamin Rose InstituteH. Stuart HarrisonAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationThe 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 Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyAddressing 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 1929Karamu HouseOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueMaster 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 1968: Karamu House2006: Cleveland Clinic Foundation2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. 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.Stanley C. PaceSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the Circle1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. The Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineCleveland Institute of ArtRaymond C. Moley1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Wade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Richard W. PogueJohn SherwinCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherCleveland Play HouseThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.1967: Blossom Music CenterMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentRonald B. RichardThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.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.Detroit Shoreway1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.TremontMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.Tri-C JazzFest, 1993Palace Theatre lobbyFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlBy 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.Great Lakes Science CenterArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 19711996: Old Stone ChurchCleveland OrchestraLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Protest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseCommunityFoundationAtlas.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. Cleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933MAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.John Sherwin Jr.1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadIn 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 GoffA new generation of Circle fansMalvin E. BankThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938David GoldbergThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.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 Public ArtHolsey Gates HandysideFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundThe 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. Sophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET client1985: Cleveland State UniversityHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.Apollo’s Fire2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980MOCA ClevelandGlenville High School students, 1914Cleveland 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 years1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 Leyton E. CarterJames A. RatnerBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development team2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.2005: ideastreamOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.Carl W. Brand1968: Holden ArboretumMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards1976: Cleveland Play HouseCharles A. RatnerThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956The State Theatre1982: Cleveland Institute of Art1982: The TempleThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyLake-Geauga 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.First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleGoff in a rare moment of leisureCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.The Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.The Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.FairfaxHarry Coulby FundsThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumJames R. Garfield1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorAlfred M. Rankin Jr.2010: Hawken SchoolHunter MorrisonDancer/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.Malcolm L. McBrideSlavic VillageAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.2004: The Gathering PlaceJacqueline F. WoodsLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 19601976: Sokol HallSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFest1986: Cain ParkJames A. NortonGoff 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. Edgewater Park under state stewardshipHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” 27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University Circle1996: Dunham Tavern Museum1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolCleveland BalletCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyDispersed 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.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Cleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerLinking 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.Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyGoff 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.2006: MOCA ClevelandJohn J. DwyerCarlton K. MatsonVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.L. Dale Dorney FundKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleA 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.Catharine Monroe LewisGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. Lakeview TerraceThe 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.1972: Huron Road Mall1973: Severance HallEllwood H. FisherMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumGordon Park in its heydayHomer C. Wadsworth2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Singing AngelsCleveland Institute of MusicCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationProgressive Field at GatewayKent H. Smith2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Under the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.GroundWorks Dance TheaterThe 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 sideRaymond Q. ArmingtonNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. Tom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 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 The foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Michael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Harold T. Clark1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetFred S. McConnellThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.John L. McChordFirst 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.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.Manchester 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.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.Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.The Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution 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. 2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandBarbara Haas RawsonPresbyterian 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.Lexington Village2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtGeorge and Janet VoinovichSupport 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 crashKenneth W. Clement M.D.Captain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.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.University Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryStokes with his brother Louis (left)1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyFoundation 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. Dancing WheelsCharles P. BoltonCleveland 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, OhioMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsThe 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.R. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksDr. 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.Harry Goldblatt, M.D.Cleveland Museum of ArtSPACESSherwick FundGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Nancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchF. James and Rita Rechin FundThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.J. Kimball JohnsonA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumBelle SherwinTreu-Mart FundPlayhouse Square, c. 1969The original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadGreat Lakes Theater FestivalGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 20121964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.To date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Chester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Donald and Ruth GoodmanCleveland OrchestraChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerA. E. Convers FundOhio CityJames D. Williamson2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 20072003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsClean water advocates, 1968CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923The RetreatKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977The bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.The restored Hungarian Cultural GardenSteven A. MinterCleveland Film SocietyMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Wade 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).2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterHalprin worksheet