100 Years in Pictures

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 mayor Ralph S. LocherCleveland Orchestra2010: Hawken SchoolRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. 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 yearsDetroit ShorewayJacqueline F. WoodsAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Ellwood H. FisherSherwick FundStokes with his brother Louis (left)Playhouse Square, c. 1969To date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.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.An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Reinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Cleveland BalletGoff 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. Great Lakes Theater FestivalGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerRonald B. RichardH. Stuart HarrisonThe State Theatre2006: MOCA ClevelandHarry Goldblatt, M.D.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 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 Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administration2004: The Gathering Place1976: Sokol HallOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards1964: Garden Center of Greater Cleveland1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsProgressive Field at GatewayThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Cleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.James A. RatnerHarold T. Clark2005: ideastreamThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Katharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsKent H. SmithGeorge and Janet VoinovichDispersed 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.Halprin worksheetDancing WheelsCleveland Institute of Art1985: Cleveland State UniversityCarlton K. MatsonApollo’s FireA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress 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.Belle SherwinFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 19801997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationGoff in a rare moment of leisureGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.On December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteRichard W. Pogue1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesTreu-Mart FundContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965First 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.Grand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Harry Coulby FundsAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeLinking 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.The RetreatA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John Morell1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyFamed 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).Cleveland Public ArtAddressing 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 19292002: Cleveland Institute of MusicThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.Malcolm L. McBrideAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern Ohio1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, Ohio1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956The cast of Nicholas Nickleby1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksFrances Southworth GoffL. Dale Dorney FundJ. Kimball Johnson2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorDavid Goldberg1968: Karamu House1973: Severance HallArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalySophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” The Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsAndrew 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.Uptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtEdgewater Park under state stewardshipLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. 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.2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Carl W. BrandCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior Viaduct1968: Holden ArboretumThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.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 crashGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.A burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. 1967: Blossom Music CenterHomer C. WadsworthFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒19231994: Great Lakes Science MuseumWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesPalace Theatre lobbyA 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.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.Raymond Q. ArmingtonAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregation27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleFred S. McConnellFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerHolsey Gates HandysideCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Protest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.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. Slavic Village1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicJames D. WilliamsonThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineSteven A. Minter2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationThe 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.Lake-Geauga FundHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.SPACESJohn L. McChordCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestCleveland’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 East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationJohn SherwinA new generation of Circle fansProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. The Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenJohn Sherwin Jr.Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtGordon Park in its heydayAn examination room at the Glenville Health Clinic2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenLexington VillageMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentCleveland OrchestraThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Architectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 19712000: Therapeutic Riding CenterEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.1972: Huron Road MallStanley C. PacePrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Business attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationPresbyterian 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.The 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditorium1976: Cleveland Play HouseParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity 2000: Cleveland Zoological Society1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteTitle 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.St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.Clean water advocates, 1968Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumThe 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 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. Tri-C groundbreaking, 1966The Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution center1996: Old Stone Church1982: The Temple1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtRaymond C. MoleyGoff 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.Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Cool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteCleveland Institute of MusicBarbara Haas RawsonThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleAlfred M. Rankin Jr.TremontMalvin E. BankOhio CityCharles A. RatnerMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Members of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. Burke1986: Cain ParkA 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 TheaterAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Hunter MorrisonDonald and Ruth GoodmanCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityJames R. GarfieldCleveland Play HouseCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerBy 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.Glenville High School students, 1914Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkLakeview TerraceSinging AngelsMOCA ClevelandFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingMAGNET 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 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. Tri-C JazzFest, 1993A. E. Convers 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 side1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938The original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Nancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchFairfax1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Great Lakes Science CenterUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsJames A. Norton2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977The Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtLeyton E. CarterAlthough 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.Church Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Barack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Kenneth W. Clement M.D.1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 Cleveland Film SocietyPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960John J. DwyerCleveland Museum of ArtAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Catharine Monroe LewisCharles P. BoltonUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Karamu HouseF. James and Rita Rechin FundThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.The Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlCommencement at Tri-C, 1975A new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamMaster 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