100 Years in Pictures

F. James and Rita Rechin FundJames D. WilliamsonStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 A new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.The foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” 1964: Garden Center of Greater Cleveland1985: Cleveland State UniversityGlenville High School students, 1914MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Sherwick Fund1968: Karamu HouseCarl W. BrandDetroit ShorewayChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Cleveland Film SocietyHarry Goldblatt, M.D.Proposed townhomes for East 118th Street1982: The TempleThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.1994: Great Lakes Science Museum2005: ideastreamAlfred M. Rankin Jr.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 yearsGoff 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.Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards1976: Cleveland Play HouseThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933The 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 2004: The Gathering PlaceRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The Nutcracker2006: MOCA ClevelandThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Barack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Harry Coulby FundsRobert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtKenneth W. Clement M.D.Albert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.James R. GarfieldThe 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 An assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineClean water advocates, 1968James A. Norton2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterStokes with his brother Louis (left)Sophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartments1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesCleveland OrchestraJohn L. McChordNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchLeyton E. CarterHarold T. ClarkNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Cleveland OrchestraArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Charles A. RatnerCleveland Museum of ArtTri-C groundbreaking, 19661961: Benjamin Rose InstituteCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.After their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Karamu HouseTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.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. 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.Belle SherwinThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.1973: Severance HallCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.Great Lakes Theater FestivalSteven A. MinterMAGNET 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. Inauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyEdgewater Park under state stewardshipGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.Fred S. McConnell2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalAndrew 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.CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteDancing WheelsAn owner-employee of the Evergreen Laundry1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicNeighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.1986: Cain ParkDavid GoldbergMalvin E. BankTitle 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.The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleDancer/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.Reinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Ralph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. John SherwinHunter MorrisonRaymond C. MoleyOhio CityVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Cleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Catharine Monroe LewisCharles P. BoltonPalace Theatre lobbyFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.The Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicAddressing 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 1929Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitGeorge and Janet VoinovichCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFest1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductThe RetreatThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyH. Stuart Harrison27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University Circle1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Business attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationRaymond Q. ArmingtonJohn Sherwin Jr.Projects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Lakeview TerraceGroundWorks Dance TheaterGordon Park in its heydayThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.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. Ellwood H. FisherWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. The Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationThe 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 sideR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksJames A. RatnerLexington VillageSinging AngelsTreu-Mart FundInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Advocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellKent H. Smith1976: Sokol HallMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeMaster 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 J. DwyerGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.FairfaxLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.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. 1968: Holden ArboretumSlavic VillageFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundBy 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.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.Entrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioHolsey Gates HandysideThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in Bratenahl2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.To date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity An east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy Naegele2010: Hawken SchoolKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 19771972: Huron Road MallL. Dale Dorney FundDonald and Ruth Goodman1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolLinking 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.Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyJacqueline F. WoodsApollo’s FireOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012J. Kimball JohnsonLake-Geauga FundThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938A “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellSPACESFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon Park2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtThe 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.1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumAlthough 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.Great Lakes Science CenterBarbara Haas RawsonFrances Southworth Goff2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Evergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamCleveland Institute of MusicA 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.Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937An examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicRichard W. PogueA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Progressive Field at GatewayMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Halprin worksheetMOCA ClevelandCleveland Play HouseMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentCleveland BalletA 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.Playhouse Square, c. 1969Cleveland Institute of ArtMalcolm L. McBrideThe gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.1967: Blossom Music CenterRonald B. RichardCarlton K. MatsonIvan 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.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).A greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923The 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.1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandCleveland Public Art2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.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.The original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadThe 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. The State TheatreGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeDr. 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.Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.The restored Hungarian Cultural GardenInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorManchester 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.TremontGoff in a rare moment of leisure1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.Cool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.A new generation of Circle fansA. E. Convers FundGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 20121975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsBarbecue 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.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 crashCommencement at Tri-C, 1975CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum 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.Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyStanley C. Pace2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Planning model of Cleveland, c. 19601996: Old Stone Church2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtTri-C JazzFest, 1993Homer C. WadsworthVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Privately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.