This French-style mansion, located at 1599 Roxbury Road was built between 1908 and 1912 by influential Marble Cliff resident and Columbus businessman Butler Sheldon, son of Robert Sheldon (inset), founder of Sheldon Dry Goods. Butler Sheldon's sister, Flora, was the senior President Bush's paternal grandmother, who lived nearby at 1550 Roxbury.

An architectural design competition sponsored by the Columbus chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Columbus Real Estate Board asked architects across the U.S. to submit designs for a house that cost under $6000 for lots very much like those in the developing areas of Grandview and Upper Arlington. The winning two-story design, shown here, is from architect Fred Wells of Toledo, and was estimated at $5956 to build.

The Gloria is shown in this photograph, with the restaurant at the left and the club section at the right. This WWII era inset photo shows Sam Delewese with his signature cigar and six of the Gloria personnel standing in front of the door from the restaurant to the night club. The photos above the door are Gloria employees, and Delewese and DeVictor sons who were in the service. Many of the waitresses were also family members. Shown here are Helen, Flora, unknown, Sam, Dori, Mary and Jildie.

The “Dam Cars” were interurban carriages of the Columbus, Urbana, and Western Railway. The cars travelled nine miles from downtown Columbus to Fishinger Bridge at Dublin Pike and Fishinger Road, north of what is now Upper Arlington. There were three passenger cars, #101-103, built by the Cincinnati Car Company. Car #101 is shown at the top and at the bottom left. Car #103 is shown at the middle right. Car #102 was lost in the 1913 flood. The bottom right is a 1905 photo taken from the Miller Farm entrance from Dublin Pike.

The Grandview Heights Municipal Building is shown here in several views. The top right shows the building as it was completed in 1924, with the Seagrave fire apparatus parked in front. The top left is an aerial view showing the extra truck bays after the 1936 addition. The bottom two images show the facility after the 1963 additions were built.

Carl Hoster and his wife Mary Sheldon lived in the home at the lower left on Arlington Avenue in Marble Cliff. The expansive carriage house and stable is seen at the back of the property. The upper right photo shows the Hoster Brewing complex in the Brewery District just south of downtown Columbus. The lower right shows Carl Hoster as a student at Cornell, and the upper left is taken from a drawing by Billy Ireland from his book “Club Men of Columbus In Caricature”. He is holding a garland that would be given to the winner of his Hoster-Columbus $10,000 Stake horse race.

A boat from the 1909 Galloway-Stone Colorado River expedition floats down river. The boats were specially designed and built by Nathaniel Galloway for the expedition, with specifications provided by Grandview resident Julius Stone (the photo inset is Stone’s boat, now on display in the Grand Canyon Archival Collection). The expedition included five men at the start, with four completing the three-month trip down the Green and Colorado Rivers: Galloway, Julius F. Stone, Raymond Cogswell, Seymour Dubendorf, and Charles Sharp (who dropped out early in the trip).

The Lindenberg-Tarpy home at 1122 Cambridge is shown in the bottom two photographs. At the left is a view looking northwest at the back side of the house, where the driveway enters the property. At the right is a view of the north side of the house and the front that faces the river. The drawing at the top is a depiction of the house used in a 1925 ad for shingles.

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.