Research & Resources

Based on inquiries, topics of interest to our community and the resources in our archives, we conduct research projects to further our understanding of our historical past. Please direct questions to info@uahistory.org.

Homes & Property

• What does it mean to have a “Royce-built home"?”

• Research your own home’s history

• Fire Insurance mark

• Warren C. & Virginia B. Armstrong house - History of 2756 Edgewood Road

• Century Home Spotlight: 1826 Upper Chelsea

Our Past

• The Development of Lane Road

• UA’s Journey to Building a Community Center

• Aging Schools in 1917

• Newcomers Party: How UA Greeted New Residents for Decades

• History display at UAHS (2024)

• Jones 100 display panels (2024)

• George McConnaughey - WWII Experiences

• Life “north of Lane” in the 1940s - Remembrances from Pauline Stinson Stamm

• Why are we named Upper Arlington?

• Learn about UA in 1923

• Then and Now - Tremont Center

• Preservation: Wall Images from Jones

• Then and Now - Rte. 315

• Miller Ice House

• Blue Bricks (Lazarus / Macy’s store)

• History of the UACA (presented by Mark Abell at 2022 Annual Meeting)

• Then and Now - The Mallway

• The History of Camp Willis: A Military Camp Pauses the Development of Upper Arlington

• History of the Miller Family (from minute 1:00 - 9:00)

• History of July 4th - courtesy of UAHS Class of 2019’s Jane Pultz (created in 2018)

• Centennial Norwester Magazine display

• 2015 WOSU video about Tri-Village area history (Grandview Heights, Marble Cliff, and UA)

• UA Archives - an online resource to UA’s history