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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

This undocumented professional photograph is thought to be documentation of the Panhandle Railroad celebration, or perhaps one from a previous year's railroad event.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.