Grandview Trivia!

Think you know Grandview Heights? Try your hand at the questions below and put your knowledge to the test! (With a big thank you to Dan Massey)

For the record, not one team had a perfect score!

1) Name either of the two families who owned farmland that Samuel R. Slaymaker purchased in 1925 in order to create a housing development.

McGrann or Rohrer

2) To the nearest 10, how many acres of farmland were purchased for the original layout of Grandview Heights?

400

3) Which street in Grandview Heights was named not for a family member but rather the family attorney of the Slaymakers?

Coyle

4) Nathan C. Schaeffer was offered the Presidency of which college, his alma mater, in 1902?

Franklin & Marshall

5) The current site of Tondere Hair Studio was the home of what store in the 1950s and through the mid-1960s?

Kilheffer's

6) The model home, Moderne Manor, on Louise Ave was completed in 1935 with the assistance of Hazel Dell Brown, who was so prominent in her field that her life’s work warranted her 1982 obituary running in the New York Times. With what Lancaster company was Brown long associated as their interior designer/decorator?

Armstrong

7) The Grandview neighborhood was once part of a town named after what tree?

Poplar

8) The original Grand View Heights Corporation was headquartered on the fourth floor of what renowned Lancaster building?

The Woolworth Building

9) What is the name of the dry cleaning business at the corner of New Holland Pike and McGrann Blvd?

West End Cleaners

10) When Schaeffer Elementary opened in 1937, it replaced what smaller nearby school?

Rossmere

Grandview Trivia!

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