Moment in Time (April 21, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (April 7, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (March 31, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (March 24, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (March 17, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (March 10, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (March 3, 2022)
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.
Donations of Art: Two Historic Marble Cliff Homes
Donations were recently made to the Society of art representing two Marble Cliff homes, the Manor House at 1427 Roxbury Road (#10 Arlington Place) and 1492 Roxbury Road.
Moment in Time (February 24, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (February 17, 2022)
Billy Bott purchased the farm and home of Cinderella Holman and created the Grand View Terrace addition shown in the 1915 plat depicted here. The addition included an existing structure previously known as the Franklin County Poor House. Bott reserved a central portion for a fountain and park.
Moment in Time (February 10, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (February 3, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (January 26, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (January 20, 2022)
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.
Moment in Time (January 13, 2022)
This photograph and inset show the three homes built in 1889 by Timothy J. Price for his wife and him and for the families of his son J.E. Price and daughter Mary Jane Price Griswold. The J.E Price home is in the lower inset, with Fifth Avenue at the bottom and the railroad tracks on the right at the base of the hill leading to the Marble Cliff Station.
Moment in Time (January 6, 2022)
The new manufacturing plant of the W.E. Lamneck Company on West Fifth near the Olentangy River is shown in this 1918 engraving. It was a prominent Columbus industrial operation from the turn of the century until the death of its founder in 1932. A train on the Hocking Valley tracks can be seen in the background.
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.