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History · Marble Cliff

Marble Cliff’s post office opened in 1874, and 40% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Lanman-Ingram House. Below: 4 old photos and papers from 1897 on.

1874first post office
1on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
4old photos & papers
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From Marble Cliff’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Marble Cliff began

When was Marble Cliff founded?

1874

The Marble Cliff post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1890. Another post office, Marblecliff (1874), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 634152 years
Founding year: the first Marble Cliff post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1890.

What stands out about Marble Cliff’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 4 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Marble Cliff’s homes were built before 1954.
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Start Marble Cliff’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marble Cliff’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewHandsome Homes of Columbus, Ohio: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Marble Cliff, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Marble Cliff yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Marble Cliff is a village in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. The population was 634 at the 2020 census. Marble Cliff was one of the first suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, settled as a community in 1890 and incorporated as the "Hamlet of Marble Cliff" in 1901. It took its name from the Marble Cliff Quarry Co. (still in use today), and at this time stretched all the way from the Scioto River to the Olentangy River. In 1902, it detached all land but its present area, and the area that separated became Grandview Heights in 1906. The village was named "Arlington" for a short time, which led its new neighbor to the north, incorporated in 1918, to name itself Upper Arlington. Marble Cliff is borde…

Its first post office opened in 1874. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 573 to 634 (+11%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Marble Cliff, 1874 to 1922

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874Post officeThe Marblecliff post office opens
  3. 1897In the archiveHandsome Homes of Columbus, Ohio
  4. 20th century
  5. 1915Post officeThe Marblecliff post office closes
  6. 1917In the archiveOhio - Manchester through Marblehead
  7. 1922In the archiveBlanchard Columbus image 006
By decade

Marble Cliff, decade by decade

3 decades in the archive, from the 1890s to the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1890s–1920s4 items
Handsome Homes of Columbus, Ohioc. 1897Handsome Homes of Columbus, OhioHandsome Homes of Columbus, Ohioc. 1897Handsome Homes of Columbus, OhioOhio - Manchester through Marblehead1917Ohio - Manchester through MarbleheadBlanchard Columbus image 0061922Blanchard Columbus image 006
1930s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today2 recent
Skeele-ext2004Skeele-extOHMap-doton-Marble Cliff2004OHMap-doton-Marble Cliff
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Handsome Homes of Columbus, Ohio
Retake this viewHandsome Homes of Columbus, Ohio, c. 1897

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Marble Cliff’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Marble Cliff

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2021
Lanman-Ingram House
Lanman-Ingram House
Buildings
All 1 listings
Lanman-Ingram HouseBuilding · listed 2021

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Marble Cliff

Nobody well known was born in Marble Cliff itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Simone BilesAmerican artistic gymnast · b. 1997
Maggie GraceAmerican actress · b. 1983
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Josh RadnorAmerican actor, director, producer, and screenw… · b. 1974
R. L. StineAmerican novelist · b. 1943
Warner BaxterAmerican actor · b. 1889
Lois McMaster BujoldAmerican novelist · b. 1949
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Another post office, Marblecliff, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
Marblecliff Post Officepost office

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Grandview Heights1 historic placeB+Upper Arlington2 historic placesB

Questions about Marble Cliff’s history

What year was Marble Cliff founded?

The Marble Cliff post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1890.

What is on the National Register in Marble Cliff?

One place: the Lanman-Ingram House (listed 2021).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.