The Grandview Heritage Foundation is an educational nonprofit preserving and providing public access to all things relating to the history of the Grand View Normal Institute and the surrounding community of Grandview, Tennessee. To learn more, take the...
The Grandview History Center is home to the Grand View Normal Institute Memorial Library and Archive. Operated by the Foundation, the Center publicly displays and makes available documents, photos and artifacts relating to the school's history and the history of the Grandview Community. The Foundation has on file over 2000 photographs pre-dating 1920, and houses collections pertaining to the Grand View Normal Institute (GVNI), the American Missionary Association and the Christian Endeavor Society. It is also the archive for researching early families who settled in and around the Grandview area. The Center is open Thursdays and Saturdays, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Appointments for other times can be scheduled by calling 916-710-1747.
Unless indicated otherwise, images and documents posted on this web site are either the exclusive property of the Grandview Heritage Foundation or a private party. Any downloading and/or transmitting of these items for promotional or commercial purposes without written permission from the Foundation is prohibited.
Piney Falls/Grandview residents 1870-1930.
Piney Falls/Grandview residents 1870-1930.
Piney Falls/Grandview residents 1870-1930.
Day-trips into the surrounding, nature-rich area.
The Piney Falls State Natural Area adjacent to the Grandview community has been preserved by the State of Tennessee.
Selected paper items pertaining to the Grandview community and its surrounding area.
Veterans of the Civil War who lay at rest in Grandview-area cemeteries.
An alphabetical listing of students and teachers who attended and taught at the Institute.
A chronological description of the Institute's school buildings.
Christian Endeavor Society, YMCA & YWCA.
America's favorite pastime was an ongoing activity at the Institute.
A collection of photos and newspaper clippings documenting annual meetings of the Institute's Student Body Organization.
Selected items from the Foundation's document collection specific to the Institute.
Commercially produced post cards from the Foundation's document collection featuring the Institute's campus buildings.
Like all schools operated by the American Missionary Association (AMA), the Grand View Normal Institute (GVNI) maintained a library supporting the education of its students. Books and magazines were obtained as either discards from public libraries, or as donations from private individuals.
Established in 1884, the GVNI library collection has survived to the present day. Containing over 5200 volumes, the collection is housed at the Grandview History Center and maintained by the Grandview Heritage Foundation. Books range from 100 to 200 years in age, and include 19th century first editions, large travel folios, limited editions devoted to religious studies and temperance, numerous history and reference sets, and an extensive collection of young peoples' fiction.
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The Foundation Has in its collection many items of historic importance to the Grandview community which it is unable to display due to a lack of space. An existing building at the History Center site will be remodeled into a modern museum to obtain additional space.
Home of Harriet Russell Stratton built in 1895. It is reflective of the cottage-style architecture common at the time of its construction. It will be moved to the History Center site and become a gallery of Ms. Stratton's period photographs taken in the Grandview area.
Victorian cottage constructed in 1905 near GNVI Campus by Henry C. Hilleary for his family. Dismantled and preserved by the Foundation in 2004, its planned reconstruction at the History Center site will allow for displaying period furniture and textiles.
Built in 1871, it was one of the very first structures built in the Piney Falls (Grandview) Community. Of a unique design, it was used to grind corn and saw lumber using a single turning shaft. A duplicate of the mill will be reconstructed on its original site.
If you would like to help fund any or all of these projects, or make a contribution to support the general purposes of the Foundation, you can...
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Grandview Heritage Foundation
916-710-1747
221 Firetower Road, Grandview, Tennessee 37337, United States