Clintonville Ohio is a residential area on the north side of Columbus. In the Real Living Story "Grandview & More" Clintonville is the "& More." I scratched my head and said "huh?" when I first watched the video... The Real Living Story includes Grandview and the Grandview area... and Clintonville. The part of the video dealing with Clintonville is about half way through and starts with the Whetstone Library in Whetstone Park in Clintonville.
"Charming homes, trendy restaurants and the Buckeye spirit are plentiful in this area." according to the Real Living Story of "Grandview & More."
"& More" will be called Clintonville from now on... or Clintonville / Beechwold.
Buckeye spirit is pretty common all over Central Ohio.. but there probably are more OSU professors in Clintonville and Grandview because of the proximity of both to the university.
The charming homes part is definitely true of both Clintonville and Grandview. And Clintonville and Grandview homes are roughly from the same era so that may be why the Real Living marketing folks lumped the two areas in one video...
The "trendy restaurants" is much more true of Grandview because Clintonville is dry. There are some great breakfast and lunch spots on High Street in Clintonville and Beechwold these days but you aren't going to go out for a steak and a bottle of wine in Clintonville... or even a brat and a draught of beer. There is an Applebees at Graceland now, but is Graceland Clintonville? Everything south of Worthington is "governed" by the Clintonville Area Commission.
A Clintonville website says: A locally favorite debate: Where does Clintonville end and Beechwold begin? Paul Bingle who served on the Clintonville area commission for a number of years is the author of that site. ' The Clintonville Portal' describes Clintonville as "Clintonville: A vibrant north-central Columbus (Ohio) community of 28,000 residents residing in more than 80 differing subdivisions. "Founded" in 1847."
Clintonville / Beechwold is an area of the City of Columbus. The Clintonville.org website also says:
The purest amongst us proclaim that Clintonville is a state of (wonderful) mind and its is a community that encompasses many neighborhoods, including the Crestview, Walhalla, Dominion Park, Northmoor, Webster Park, Northridge, Overbrook, Rosemary Park, Indian Springs subdivisions, as well as the Beechwold subdivisions and the more than 70 other formally named subdivisions. There is no right place to draw a line between the often discussed Clintonville and Beechwold neighborhoods - because there never was a formal boundary. "Clintonville" is the combination of many neighborhoods. There is no value in trying to separate the two halves of the community.
The party conversation will likely never end - in endless riddle discussion of the where the dividing boundaries are.
Whetstone Park in Clintonville including The Park of Roses is 136.28 acres. The Columbus Rose Festival is held the first weekend of June each year. The Whetstone Branch of the Columbus Public Library is at Whetstone Park. Clintonville is a walking community and a biking community with the bike path running along the Olentangy River west of Clintonville.
A yearly tradition is the Clintonville Homes Tour. Hosted by and benefiting the Clintonville Community Fund, with the support of the North Area Real Estate Association, it's a public tour of private residences on the Sunday after Labor Day. The Clintonville Homes Tour has homes in Beechwold and Clintonville on it often.
Paul Bingle's Clintonville Portal has items of historical interest that he has researched
Often buyers will look for homes in both Clintonville / Beechwold (north of OSU) and Grandview (south west of OSU) because the homes are similar in age and style but there are some differences. Clintonville is in the Columbus school district. Clintonville is a neighborhood or an area of neighborhoods. Clintonville does not have hard and fast borders, as a city Grandview of course does. When you leave Worthington going south there are Clintonville signs but not all consider the area north of Graceland as Clintonville... or Beechwold...
Clintonville has an active Chamber of Commerce. There is a lot of new businesses including restaurants and shops in Clintonville in just the last couple of years. The very outdated Clintonville Commission website says: Clintonville is a special community with its tree-lined streets, parks, ravines and rich history. Preserving the charm and quality of life in Clintonville is a top priority of the CAC and presents many special challenges
The Clintonville Area Commission or "How Clintonville grew" again this is according to Paul Bingle on Clintonville.org
"In late 1974, the City of Columbus created the "Clintonville Area Commission", designating its governance area (south: the Glen Echo Ravine, west: the Olentangy River, north: the City's border with the unincorporated Sharon Township and the City of Worthington, east: the Big Four Railroad). Although the CAC's name includes the word "area" - as time passed, most residents within the geographical area of the CAC's oversight, including residents north of Clinton Township, believed that they resided in "Clintonville". Thus the imaginary boundaries grew.
P.S. Did Grandview look interesting? I will cover Grandview separately....
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