100 Years in Pictures

Harry Goldblatt, M.D.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. MAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamCleveland OrchestraGordon Park in its heydayOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Tri-C groundbreaking, 1966The 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 sideKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977R. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksJames A. Norton2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterMalcolm L. McBrideMaster 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 J. Kimball JohnsonGreat Lakes Science CenterCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.NewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Michael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Ohio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Protest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseCleveland Orchestra2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Carl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Malvin E. BankSPACESRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. Innovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. 1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFest27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University Circle2005: ideastream1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientOhio CityAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineJohn L. McChordContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Under the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.1985: Cleveland State UniversityLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareManchester 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.Lakeview TerraceFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitLeyton E. Carter1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditorium1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and Properties1968: Holden ArboretumMOCA ClevelandThe 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.1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.The Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.The Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyHalprin worksheetArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Vietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.The Retreat1968: Karamu House1982: The TempleThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Stanley C. PaceHunter MorrisonEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioPalace Theatre lobbyKaramu HouseStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.Nancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchRichard W. PogueAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Playhouse Square, c. 1969The 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. Donald and Ruth Goodman1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Carlton K. MatsonLake-Geauga FundWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub 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 yearsSupport 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 crashVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.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.1986: Cain Park1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Presbyterian 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.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.Graduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Belle SherwinFamed 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).2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalApollo’s FireAndrew 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.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.Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 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.The Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.A. E. Convers FundAlthough 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.The Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Privately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central city1972: Huron Road MallCleveland Ballet1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyCleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956John SherwinAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtCommencement at Tri-C, 1975Detroit ShorewayCarl W. Brand2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationTitle 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.Business attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationKenneth W. Clement M.D.1996: Old Stone ChurchAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueClean water advocates, 1968Goff in a rare moment of leisureBy 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.The foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.The cast of Nicholas NicklebyJacqueline F. WoodsThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.On December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.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. Catharine Monroe LewisProgressive Field at GatewayCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.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.2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterCleveland Film SocietyEllwood H. FisherA new generation of Circle fansCleveland Institute of ArtSherwick FundThe 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 John J. DwyerTreu-Mart FundRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenRaymond Q. ArmingtonThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Frances Southworth GoffGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. Kent H. SmithArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Linking 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 West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhood2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteHarold T. ClarkHomer C. WadsworthJames R. GarfieldThe grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990The Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyThe 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.A new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityCleveland Museum of ArtGlenville High School students, 1914Addressing 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 1929CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteTri-C JazzFest, 1993The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Cleveland Play HouseCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyHolsey Gates HandysideSlavic VillageA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellGrand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. 2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicHarry Coulby Funds1973: Severance HallCharles P. BoltonMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts1976: Sokol HallMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. Burke2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolTremontGlobal Cleveland’s welcome centerBarbecue 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.First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933The restored Hungarian Cultural GardenEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsBarbara Haas Rawson1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.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.Church Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Robert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.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.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.Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkJohn Sherwin Jr.F. James and Rita Rechin FundMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity 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. H. Stuart HarrisonAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Edgewater Park under state stewardshipGreat Lakes Theater FestivalJames D. WilliamsonFred S. McConnellKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. 1967: Blossom Music CenterRaymond C. MoleyJames A. RatnerWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.New Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Lexington VillageCleveland Institute of MusicCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Charles A. RatnerCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad2004: The Gathering PlaceCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Goff 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.L. Dale Dorney FundAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationDancing WheelsSinging AngelsEuclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910Hough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.1964: Garden Center of Greater Cleveland1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationSteven A. MinterProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetCleveland Public ArtThe 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 George and Janet VoinovichThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in Bratenahl2010: Hawken School2006: MOCA ClevelandGroundWorks Dance TheaterFairfaxMAGNET 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. Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Stokes with his brother Louis (left)1976: Cleveland 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 NutcrackerRonald B. RichardThe State TheatreThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of Art1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsDavid GoldbergThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.