100 Years in Pictures

Uptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Tri-C JazzFest, 1993Reinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtJacqueline F. WoodsCleveland Film SocietyHarry Coulby FundsProgressive Field at GatewayChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodCarl W. BrandGoff 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.1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyA new generation of Circle fansRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. Cleveland Institute of MusicParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity 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. MAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.On his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Dancer/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.Raymond Q. ArmingtonNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellCarlton K. MatsonAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Goff in a rare moment of leisure2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicTreu-Mart FundCleveland BalletMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.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.2004: The Gathering PlaceAddressing 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 1929Contaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Steven A. MinterThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenCharles P. BoltonFirst 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.Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.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.Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterJames A. NortonL. Dale Dorney FundAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. Members of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeClean water advocates, 1968The 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 sideJames D. Williamson2010: Hawken School1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationSinging AngelsRonald B. RichardBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleKent H. SmithCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Gordon Park in its heydayChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Cleveland Play HouseKaramu HouseCleveland Institute of ArtCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Palace Theatre lobbyThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell Road1967: Blossom Music CenterLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareAlthough 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.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.H. Stuart HarrisonSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the Circle2005: ideastream2006: Cleveland Clinic Foundation1973: Severance HallThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938Detroit ShorewayEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 19101957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyMalvin E. BankEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Hunter MorrisonA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.The RetreatBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamApollo’s FireJames A. Ratner2002: 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. 2006: MOCA ClevelandCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductSupport 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 crashLexington VillageSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientLeyton E. CarterRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeAndrew 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 burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. 1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumFred S. McConnellCleveland OrchestraR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyFamed 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).The grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 199027 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenuePlayhouse Square, c. 1969Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” The Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Albert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.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. Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityCleveland Museum of Art2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsCharles A. RatnerHolsey Gates Handyside1982: The TempleNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.1964: Garden Center of Greater Cleveland1968: Karamu HouseBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationHomer C. WadsworthOhio CityThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Lakeview TerraceThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.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 years1986: Cain ParkCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.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.The Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 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. The Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Slavic VillageThe Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Privately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977Sherwick FundCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerCleveland OrchestraDonald and Ruth GoodmanAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.James R. GarfieldBy 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.1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellProposed townhomes for East 118th Street1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandEllwood H. FisherAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryBelle SherwinFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suit2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtJ. Kimball JohnsonFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Harold T. Clark1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and Properties1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFest1959: Cleveland Institute of Music1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Nancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchThe 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.1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumLake-Geauga FundThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Raymond C. MoleyAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.The Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationBarbara Haas RawsonFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkDispersed 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.Cleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.F. James and Rita Rechin FundUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Protest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the rise1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteGreat Lakes Science CenterFairfaxCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution center1996: Dunham Tavern Museum2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsHalprin worksheetLinking 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 Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. 1976: Cleveland Play HousePlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960The 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 2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalMaster 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 John SherwinStokes with his brother Louis (left)Edgewater Park under state stewardshipAlfred M. Rankin Jr.1968: Holden ArboretumHarry Goldblatt, M.D.MOCA ClevelandCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933SPACESThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Innovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Grand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937David GoldbergMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 1985: Cleveland State UniversityGreat Lakes Theater Festival2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.TremontA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Global Cleveland’s welcome centerIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.After their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Malcolm L. McBrideThe 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 Mayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentDr. 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.CommunityFoundationAtlas.org website2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenPresbyterian 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.George and Janet VoinovichThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Frances Southworth Goff1996: Old Stone ChurchCleveland Public ArtBarbecue 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.University Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.John Sherwin Jr.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.1976: Sokol HallCommencement at Tri-C, 1975The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956Stanley C. PaceIvan 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.Frank 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. Glenville High School students, 1914A. E. Convers Fund1972: Huron Road MallWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Dancing WheelsUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.GroundWorks Dance TheaterThe State Theatre2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, Ohio1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.The foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Cleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.The West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Richard W. PogueKenneth W. Clement M.D.The 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumCatharine Monroe LewisJohn J. DwyerJohn L. McChord