"Any girl who has played on an intramural team is entitled to membership in the club." The year is 1930, and the club is the Grandview Girls Athletic Association. During this period, all of the intramural tournaments were taken care of by this organization. With a constitution, officers, and an executive committee, the club operated with the motto "To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight."

The first Home Tour sponsored by the newly organized Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society was held on May 8, 1977. The five homes that were featured were located throughout the Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff area and were all built between the years 1892 and 1911.

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In 1942 funding was obtained to buy uniforms for the Grandview High School band and the marching band was organized, with Mr. Paul Holcomb as director. The photo shows the Grandview Heights Marching Band in their new uniforms on the front lawn of the High School.

Gutches Grandview Market was one of many neighborhood grocery stores located around Grandview Heights and Marble Cliff. It was located at the corner of First Avenue and Oakland in the former Celeste Realty building, which was razed to build condominiums.

The first Grandview Heights municipal election occurred more than 100 years ago on April 28, 1906. Samuel Coates Jones, an extremely active lawyer and politician, was elected the first mayor. He was born in West Milton, in Miami County in 1854. He attended Antioch College and the University of Michigan and was admitted to the bar in 1879. By the time he moved to Columbus in 1891 he had already served two terms as president of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorney’s Association.

Frank P. Hall Hardware was a famous Columbus company that operated locally from 1907 until 1972. Hall's main store was located at 115 S. High Street, and at its height the organization had a total of thirteen stores operating in the area. Hall's Hardware was an original tenant of the Grandview Bank Block in 1927, shown in the photo. The license plate on the delivery truck in the inset photo on the right is stamped 1912.

Parades were and still are a big event in Grandview and Upper Arlington. The Field Day celebration took place from 1915 to 1925. This photograph shows the cover of the program for the 1919 Field Day activities. The parade travelled from Grandview Avenue, along First to Wyandotte, then to Fifth, to Cambridge Boulevard, ending at the Miller Park in Arlington. It was preceded by children’s events at the Arlington Country Club in Marble Cliff.

William J. and Ada Boyle Merkle were the third owners of the former Our Lady of Victory convent house at 1539 Roxbury, which was torn down in 2004. Mr. Merkle was the owner of a series of Merkle's shops (founded by his father) which operated in railroad terminals throughout the Midwest. Mrs. Merkle was a Cincinnati debutante whose father was secretary to Ohio Governor and U.S. President William McKinley.

This photograph shows the development and new construction in “Arlington Place” subdivision near the northwest corner of Third and Arlington Avenues around 1896 (looking northwest). The home in the forefront is the Newhouse residence at 2020 West Third. Clinton Newhouse, his wife Blanche Gray Newhouse, and their daughter Marie are shown in the inset.

Our Lady of Victory Academy opened on September 25, 1922, shortly after the Columbus Catholic Diocese purchased the four-acre Merkle estate at the corner of Cardington and Roxbury and established Our Lady of Victory Parish. This photograph, donated by Dorothy Lang, shows the first eighth grade graduation class with their pastor, Monsignor Thomas Nolan (center).

OSU Professor William Herbert Page served as the second mayor of Grandview Heights from 1909 to 1912. Professor Page was an 1889 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale and a member of the first law class graduated from O.S.U. in 1892. He resided with his family on a 3-acre estate at 1122 Fairview Ave.

Wilber G. "Barney" Barnhart (shown in a 1920 photo) organized the W.G. Barnhart Company of which he was president and general manager. One was his first projects was construction of the Masonic Temple on the northwest corner of First and Grandview Avenues. However his greatest impact was development of the Aladdin Country Club Addition.

This photograph is from a 1929 copy of "Soundings" a publication of the Columbus Junior League. It shows the racetrack at the Arlington Country Club from around 1900. The country club was a large complex consisting of a club house, dance hall, stables, and a racetrack. It was the first country club in central Ohio and was located south of Third Avenue and west of present-day Arlington Avenue, which did not extend south of Third until 1923.

Dressed in bows and dresses, these second-grade girls are enjoying recess in the sandbox on the playground of the Grandview Elementary School. The photograph is dated 1918 and shows homes on Oakland Avenue near First Avenue in the background.

Bradley Skeele was the son of Philip Skeele, who lived at 1492 Roxbury Road. Bradley wrote several installments of what he called "hodgepodge notes", which were compiled by his son Bob. Bradley is shown seated on the grass at the far right in this photo of the 1914 Grandview football team.

J. F. Miller, resident of Richmond, Indiana and executive for the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad, owned 4.8 acres in the Arlington Place Subdivision of Price and Griswold. In 1895 Miller contracted Frank Packard to design this “Carpenter Gothic” summer home (lower right inset). In 1983 the house, considered a significant structure because of its architectural style and detailing, was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

This undated photograph shows Jean McQuilkin and Michael Moore at what appears to be a formal Valentine's Day dance. Both are wearing crowns with hearts on them and the background is decorated with large valentines featuring couples' names.

Grandview High School students have a snowball fight in the playground area at the south end of the football field in this 1960s photo. The playground, with the sandbox and "monkey bars" shown here, was used by elementary students from the Edison school before it was relocated to provide more space for the athletic fields.

In 1924, a levy was placed on the ballot in Grandview Heights to build a new elementary school to accommodate the growing number of children in homes on the east side of the city. The proposed $175,000 levy was defeated in the November elections, and the district was forced to go to half-day sessions in grades one to three. The issue was again placed on the ballot in November of 1925, and it passed.

Grandview Heights built the current high school in 1923, and the original building had the gymnasium on the first floor off the main corridor (where the current auditorium is located). In 1945 an addition was proposed (top photo) that would house a memorial to the Grandview Heights High School students who gave their lives in World War II.