Moment in Time (December 29, 2022)
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Moment in Time (December 29, 2022)

Former Marble Cliff mayor and resident Robert Beightler became a famous Ohio political insider and military leader. Major General Beightler commanded the “Buckeye Division”, the 37th Division of the Ohio National Guard, activated for battle in the Pacific during the Second World War. The Beightler Armory in Columbus is named for him. He is shown here receiving a medal from the deputy commander of the Second Army after the war ended.

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Moment in Time (December 15, 2022)
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Moment in Time (December 15, 2022)

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.

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Moment in Time (December 1, 2022)
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Moment in Time (December 1, 2022)

This photo is the home of Claude and Martha Seibert on the Broadview Hill in Grandview Heights. The photo is from “Illustrations of the work of Dawson & Holbrook, Architects” in the April 1914 issue of “Ohio Architect Engineer and Builder” magazine. The inset is a drawing of Claude Seibert from the book “Club Men of Columbus in Caricature”, published in 1911.

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Moment in Time (November 17, 2022)
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Moment in Time (November 17, 2022)

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.

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Moment in Time (November 3, 2022)
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Moment in Time (November 3, 2022)

The bottom right inset image shows a woman in approximately 1900 walking across the original King Avenue truss bridge, which was built over the Olentangy River in 1863. The background is the spandrel arch bridge that replaced the original in 1913. The upper right inset image is of the Third Street arch bridge, built in 1919.

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Moment in Time (October 20, 2022)
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Moment in Time (October 20, 2022)

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.

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Moment in Time (October 6, 2022)
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Moment in Time (October 6, 2022)

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.

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Moment in Time (September 22, 2022)
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Moment in Time (September 22, 2022)

The home of Don and Ruth Casto at 1872 Stanford in Upper Arlington, from the February 1922 Norwester magazine. At the time Casto worked for the King Thompson Company selling houses in the new community. The couple sold the house the following year and moved to a new home that he built at 1852 Tremont Road between Coventry and Bedford. The inset is Casto upon his return from World War I.

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Moment in Time (September 8, 2022)
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Moment in Time (September 8, 2022)

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).

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Moment in Time (August 25, 2022)
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Moment in Time (August 25, 2022)

Professor William Herbert Page resided with his family on a 3-acre estate at 1122 Fairview Ave. in Grandview. The main house and carriage house (top right) were designed by J. Upton Gribben as his own home. The magnificent formal gardens at the south end of the property on Fairview (bottom right) were developed into home sites in the early 1980’s.

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Moment in Time (August 11, 2022)
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Moment in Time (August 11, 2022)

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.

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Moment in Time (July 28, 2022)
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Moment in Time (July 28, 2022)

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.

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Moment in Time (July 14, 2022)
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Moment in Time (July 14, 2022)

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.

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Moment in Time (June 2, 2022)
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Moment in Time (June 2, 2022)

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.

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Moment in Time (May 19, 2022)
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Moment in Time (May 19, 2022)

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.”

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Moment in Time (April 21, 2022)
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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.

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Moment in Time (April 7, 2022)
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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.

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