The McIntyre Manufacturing Company, later known as the Columbus Tractor Company, built a large manufacturing facility on Goodale in Grandview, near the Hocking Valley Railroad tracks (shown above). They built and shipped an affordable farm tractor, called the ‘Farmer Boy’. The tractors were built in several variations, including 3- and 4-wheel versions, and were shipped all over the world.

Murray D. Lincoln (a founder and former president of Nationwide Insurance Companies) and his wife Anne are shown in the living room of their Sunbury Road home, reading his autobiography “Vice President in Charge of Revolution.” The Lincoln’s lived on First Ave. in Grandview Heights in a home that was renovated by architect Lajos Szabo.

The Gourmet Market, later known as Spagio, is shown in a 1980s era photograph. The deli/restaurant is regarded as instrumental in the revival of the successful commercial strip along Grandview Avenue.

Joan Klitch, former Marble Cliff resident, is shown on the left. On the right is a 1967 photo of her husband Dick from the Columbus Citizen Journal collection. Joan passed away on May 28th, and Dick preceded her in 2021.

This photograph is of the Don Crawford Orchestra, with Crawford on saxophone, performing for the GHHS L.A.L. sorority sisters and their dates at the L.A.L. Commencement Formal in 1946. Classmates in the front row are identified (from l to r) as: Gene Garner, Ann Gebhardt, Jinny Titus, Al Hunt, Joyce Jones, and Bill Merrick.

This 1948 photo, provided by former Grandview resident Jeanne Jones Holder, shows Lowell Riley directing a practice with the FCC Cloister Choir in the original church building. As she describes it, “the boys were watching the practice while they waited to walk the girls to their homes.”

The J.F. Miller home was featured in the 1897 engraving book Handsome Homes of Columbus, Ohio and was labeled “The Rustic Bridge – Arlington”. The inset is a front view of the historic home.

William Weinman is shown on the hill in Marble Cliff that is the site of their new home that is designed to overlook the Scioto River. He is accompanied by his 7 years-old daughter Ruth, who is also shown in later years dressed in her horseback riding outfit. In the distance is the home of Sylvio Casparis, and the home at 1499 Roxbury is at the right of the 1914 inset image. The Weinman home was built at 1445 Roxbury.

Three views of the Lanman home at 2015 West Fifth are shown in this composite. The bottom view is from Fifth Avenue, looking to the south, and shows the carriage house that was at some point connected to the main home. The view at the top right is from the south lawn, looking north, and the side view at the top left is looking to the east.

Fred, Frances, and Betty Nesbitt (left to right) are shown standing in front of their grandfather Frank Howell’s rose pergola at 1082 Broadview Avenue around 1914. Their mother Louise Howell Nesbitt is standing inside the pergola. The Nesbitt family home at 1049 Grandview Avenue is shown in the 1911 photograph (top right inset). Frances dressed as the Goddess of Peace (upper left) for the 1924 Grandview Field Day parade.

Theodore Lindenberg Sr. is shown interacting with his patented Lindenberg Sound System in the control room of the theater at the bottom left. Two of his patents, for a motion picture projection system and for a multi-screen theater design, are at the top. His Frank Packard designed hacienda style home is at the bottom right.

This photo (looking west) from the William Preston Mayfield collection, shows the Twin Rivers Golf Course. The clubhouse is at the end of the trail just to the left of the lake, adjacent to Dublin Road. The Grandview Yard of the PRR is at the right. Twin Rivers Drive is at the bottom, with the Coca-Cola bottling plant at the lower right, and the WBNS-TV "Tele-center" construction site to the left of the plant. The Dublin Road Water Treatment facility is just above the course.

The image was presented in the February, 1922 edition of the Norwester magazine. Rendered by architect W. H. Tremaine, it depicts the proposed Grandview town hall and community center. The article also included schematic drawings of the building's three floors.

This 1940 photo is a view of Dublin Road, looking from just east of Grandview Avenue toward downtown. This area, often referred to as the "Golden Finger", was part of a dispute between Columbus and Grandview because of the associated taxes from property and business along this route.

The Arlington Line of Columbus' streetcar system started at Town Street in downtown Columbus, and initially ended at Fifth and Arlington in Marble Cliff. The car is shown at the bottom at the stop on Fifth, with the Lanman mansion at 2015 West Fifth in the background. Two tickets (east and west of the Goodale bridge) are also shown.

Four years after Grandview was incorporated in 1906, what is now First Community Church was established as Grandview Heights Congregational Church, and they built their first chapel at Lincoln Rd. and First Ave. In 1919 they reorganized as First Community Church and moved into a new building at 1320 Cambridge Road in 1925. This view of the new church is from a c1930 postcard.

This photo looking east shows the home of George and Alice Urlin, built on the bluff overlooking Goodale, on the site of the current Summit Chase condominiums. Urlin and several other prominent Columbus businessmen purchased tracts of land that were subdivided into lots that comprised the heart of what would become Grandview Heights. George and Alice are shown at the left in a portrait from his photo studio.

The photo shows Caroline Thomas Harnsberger looking over several of her books about Mark Twain. Born to James Oscar Thomas and his wife Edith in 1902, she was raised in the family home on the hill above Goodale and Northwest Boulevards. She was graduated from Grandview High School in 1920. Caroline went on to a storied life, much in the Tri-Village area.

Daniel Thomas is shown in the photo inset, with his cabin in the main photo. After buying the property that he would end up farming, he discovered this vacant cabin on his property. He lived there for 15 years, and his grandson James Oscar Thomas later moved in and started raising a family there.