A century-old Grandview Heights home is embattled in a real estate debate. The 1904 house sits on the northeast corner of Grandview and 1st Ave (1192 Grandview Ave) and was built by Charles Salzgaber around his vegetable farms that would later be the city’s first neighborhoods and its main commercial strip. The house is on the Grandview Heights Marble Cliff Historical Society’s list of the suburb’s landmarks, which affords it protection under city code. However, developer Kyle Kegg wants to raze the house and build the Brownstones at Grandview, a development of six walk-up brownstone condominiums.

The Grandview Heights City Council would have to vote on whether to remove the house from the list of city landmarks before it could be demolished. Tracy Liberatore, president of the Grandview Heights Marble Cliff Historical Society, said the historical society’s first meeting on the Brownstones at Grandview will be in early January.

Kegg said the building the brownstones would be the “highest, best use” of the property, whereas Liberatore said the best use would be leaving the house alone or incorporating it into the development.

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