100 Years in Pictures

Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partner2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteKaramu HouseCleveland BalletGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Sherwick FundThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineSteven A. MinterL. Dale Dorney FundRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumTri-C groundbreaking, 1966George and Janet VoinovichGoff in a rare moment of leisureRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Proposed townhomes for East 118th StreetThe Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Hunter MorrisonThe 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.Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.Famed 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).Under the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.An east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationAlthough 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.1973: Severance HallRonald B. RichardKenneth W. Clement M.D.A new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Raymond Q. ArmingtonCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration 2004: The Gathering PlaceThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Harry Goldblatt, M.D.H. Stuart HarrisonWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Halprin worksheetSinging AngelsDancer/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 mayor Ralph S. LocherBy 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.John Sherwin Jr.Malcolm L. McBrideHolsey Gates HandysideCarlton K. MatsonThe State TheatreThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationFred S. McConnellDancing WheelsThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlA 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.Commencement at Tri-C, 1975MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Advocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.A. E. Convers FundLake-Geauga FundCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Kent H. SmithAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyTitle 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.Belle SherwinA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. LAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareJacqueline F. WoodsUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleCatharine Monroe LewisSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.A new generation of Circle fansMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910The restored Hungarian Cultural Garden2010: Hawken SchoolNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchCarl W. Brand2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 20121998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadDavid GoldbergTreu-Mart FundThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Innovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorJames A. RatnerAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Cleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior Viaduct1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandCleveland Public ArtThe 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. Ohio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 20121996: Dunham Tavern MuseumStokes with his brother Louis (left)The 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 side2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationGreat Lakes Theater Festival1996: Old Stone ChurchRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. John L. McChordTri-C JazzFest, 1993The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956On December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.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.27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 FairfaxIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.NewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Frances Southworth Goff1976: Cleveland Play HouseHarry Coulby FundsThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target 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.Entrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 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.The foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Privately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central citySlavic VillageVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteCharles P. BoltonAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamSPACESJames D. WilliamsonThe 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. Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.1976: Sokol HallMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsIvan 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.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.1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyLakeview TerraceNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellCleveland Institute of ArtOhio CityInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929John Sherwin2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.After their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Alfred M. Rankin Jr.Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsCleveland Film 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 Lexington Village1997: Cleveland Clinic Foundation1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Reinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977On his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueSupport 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 crashPlayhouse Square, c. 1969Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Goff 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, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleCleveland OrchestraLeyton E. CarterWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. 1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 19601957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.The bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.The foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Edgewater Park under state stewardshipJames R. GarfieldThe RetreatProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquors2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtF. James and Rita Rechin FundClean water advocates, 19681986: Cain ParkProgressive Field at Gateway2006: MOCA Cleveland2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsCleveland Museum of ArtVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Richard W. PogueAndrew 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.1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicDonald and Ruth Goodman1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumLinking 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.1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolStanley C. PaceProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity 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 Barbara Haas RawsonTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.1972: Huron Road Mall1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteGreat Lakes Science Center1968: Holden ArboretumMOCA ClevelandFoundation 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. Business attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodHomer C. WadsworthTremontGlobal Cleveland’s welcome center2009: Cleveland Institute of Art1985: Cleveland State UniversityHarold T. ClarkThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyGroundWorks Dance TheaterCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesRaymond C. MoleyFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundPresbyterian 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.R. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksManchester 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.Dispersed 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.J. Kimball JohnsonMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.The Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938MAGNET 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 Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerJohn J. Dwyer2005: ideastreamArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Members of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. Burke1982: The Temple1967: Blossom Music CenterThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Detroit ShorewayCleveland Institute of MusicThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Ellwood H. Fisher2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980James A. Norton2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicCleveland 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.Malvin E. BankCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerGlenville High School students, 1914Goff 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. The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.Evergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housing2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. Apollo’s Fire1968: Karamu HouseThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.1956: Cleveland Institute of 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 1929The 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 Gordon Park in its heydayThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.A “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellCleveland Play HouseCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Captain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Cool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitPalace Theatre lobbySustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtCleveland 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 yearsBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Charles A. 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