Moment in Time (December 23, 2021)
This photograph is the home at 1430 Cambridge Blvd, on the southeast corner of Cambridge and Third. The house was built by Columbus realtor William A. Jackson. The longest residency in the home was the Toops family, from 1938 until 1986. OSU Prof. Herbert Toops is shown in the inset from 1941.
Moment in Time (December 16, 2021)
Approximately 9 acres north of the Grandview Heights High School was purchased by the school district in 1922 for expansion of the school campus, and was repurposed as athletic fields. Grandview resident Walter E. Anderson was instrumental in the development. The athletic field is now named Anderson Field in honor of him and his brother Roy and their families.
Moment in Time (December 9, 2021)
This home at 1080 Wyandotte Road, on the bluff at Wyandotte and Goodale, was designed by Frank Packard for Eugene Gray and his wife Mabel in 1901. The front of the house (main photo) provided an unobstructed vista because the entry was from Wyandotte to the back of the house (inset photo).
Moment in Time (December 2, 2021)
These "miners" are sitting in front of a coal loader made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus. Corporate photographer and Grandview resident Fred Behmer often staged environments that would be similar to where Jeffrey Manufacturing equipment would be used for purposes of documentation and advertising.
Moment in Time (November 24, 2021)
The photo is from the November 1908 issue of the publication American Architect and Building News highlighting sample work from New York architect Oswald Hering. It is a view of the Butler Sheldon mansion in Marble Cliff.
Moment in Time (November 17, 2021)
This photo, courtesy of the Library of Congress, shows the Woman Suffrage Headquarters in Cleveland in 1912 where the American Woman Suffrage Association was established in Cleveland in 1869. The inset photo is Mertie Bennett Smith, first woman elected to Village Council in Marble Cliff.
Moment in Time (November 10, 2021)
This undocumented professional photograph is thought to be documentation of the Panhandle Railroad celebration, or perhaps one from a previous year's railroad event.
Moment in Time (November 3, 2021)
Frederic Martin was granted a patent for the Bear-On-Easy washboard. A board from one of the glass shipping crates was donated by a local Grandview couple after they found it stored in their First Avenue basement.
Moment in Time (October 27, 2021)
Emily Bell Wilkinson Moelchert and her husband Chester (C.C.) Moelchert are shown in this 1924 photograph on the front sidewalk of their home at 1964 Cardigan in Marble Cliff.
Moment in Time (October 20, 2021)
Craft store owner and Grandview Heights resident Helen Winnemore in a 1938 photograph in her shop in her home on West 7th Avenue (Dennison Place) three years before purchasing her Grandview home on Glenn Avenue.
Moment in Time (October 13, 2021)
The rails played an important role as the area that is now Grandview Heights and Marble Cliff was opened to settlement. Several different types of “trains” carried passengers and freight that influenced how both the population and the economy of the region grew.
Moment in Time (October 5, 2021)
The Anderson Mound, aka Pope Mound, is seen here in this 1892 photo with the Pope farmhouse in the background. Mr. Pope built the stairs up the side of the mound to a picnic area on the top. At the right is an aerial photo showing its location.
Moment in Time (September 28, 2021)
Rev. J. S. Ricketts was a traveling minister and a local Grandview real estate developer, and the first mayor of Marble Cliff after it converted from a hamlet to a village in 1903. His son O. E. Ricketts was a partner in his real estate venture and an attorney in Columbus. (1896 & 1895 photos)
Moment in Time (September 22, 2021)
There is a narrow belt of limestone called Columbus and Monroe (Devonian) limestone that runs from just south of Columbus north through Delaware and Marion to Lake Erie at Marblehead near Sandusky.
Moment in Time (September 15, 2021)
The building at 1291 West Third in Grandview hasn’t changed much, but the signs indicate the several local businesses that operated there over the years. The photos are, clockwise from the upper left: Tower Confectionery, Franco’s Barber Salon, The Ohio Tap Room, and Barber Shop Imports used cars.
Moment in Time (September 8, 2021)
Cleo Backus is shown participating in an archery class in front of the Women’s Field House at Ohio State University, from which she graduated in 1936.
Moment in Time (August 31, 2021)
One of the original homes in Grandview was on the northeast corner of what is now Grandview and First Avenues. The home was on the Charles Salzgaber farm, and was built in 1903 to accommodate the growing family. Three generations of Salzgabers occupied the home until it was sold in 1984.
Moment in Time (August 24, 2021)
Anna Dodge Dillman is shown with her husband Hugh Dillman and his family on the lawn of the former Bush mansion on Roxbury Road in Marble Cliff. Anna was the former wife of the Dodge automobile co-founder, Horace Dodge. The heiress purchased the Roxbury mansion as a residence for her new husband’s family.
Moment in Time (August 18, 2021)
The Scioto Water Purification Plant and Pumping Station on Dublin Road near Grandview was built in 1908 to include water treatment processes in order to provide clean water to Columbus. Impetus for the plant resulted from the death of a prominent U.S. senator from typhoid fever from drinking tainted water.
Moment in Time (August 10, 2021)
Rev. Oliver C. Weist, pastor of First Community Church in Marble Cliff, is dressed as a Keystone Cop for the tri-village Field Day celebration.