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29-568: Grandview or Grand View may refer to: Buildings and institutions [ edit ] Grand View Hotel , a hotel in the Brisbane suburb of Cleveland, Queensland, Australia Grand View University , a Lutheran college in Des Moines, Iowa, US Grandview High School (Colorado) , a school in Aurora, Colorado, US Grandview Hotel, Fairfield ,

58-722: A 1984 comedy/drama film Grandview Cemetery (disambiguation) Grandview High School (disambiguation) SS Granview , former name of the SS Empire Chamois Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Grandview . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grandview&oldid=1228783677 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

87-947: A former rural municipality in Manitoba Rural Municipality of Grandview No. 349 , a currently existing rural municipality in Saskatchewan Grandview, Prince Edward Island , a small community in eastern Prince Edward Island Grandview–Woodland , a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia United States [ edit ] Grand View, Idaho Grandview, Illinois Grandview, Indiana Grandview, Iowa Grandview, Missouri Grand View-on-Hudson, New York , often simply called Grand View Grandview, Hamilton County, Ohio Grandview, Washington County, Ohio Grandview, Oklahoma Grandview, Texas Grandview, Washington Grandview, West Virginia Grandview, Wisconsin ,

116-552: A grazier from Mount Brisbane Station , was one of the leading lobbyists. In the early 1850s he invested heavily in industry and housing at Cleveland. The earliest section of the hotel, built as a prominent demonstration of confidence in Cleveland's future development, appears to have been erected by 1852, but appears to have remained unoccupied for several years. Known colloquially as Bigge's Folly, and formally as Cleveland House, it contained two sitting rooms and five bedrooms with

145-842: A hotel in the Melbourne suburb of Fairfield, Victoria, Australia Grandview Medical Center , a hospital located in Dayton, Ohio, US Parks [ edit ] Grand View Park , a park in the Inner Sunset District, San Francisco, California Grand View Scenic Byway Park, former name for Emerald View Park , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Grandview Drive , a road and park in Peoria and Peoria Heights, Illinois Places [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Grandview, Alberta Grandview, Manitoba Grandview Municipality , Manitoba Rural Municipality of Grandview ,

174-507: A hotel, and is one of the oldest hotels in Queensland in continuous use. The Grand View Hotel, a complex of buildings with a predominant two-storeyed masonry section built up to the footpath line on North Street, is located on the spur leading to Cleveland Point and overlooks water on three sides. Open verandahs on each level of the two-storeyed section face the street, returning around the northeast elevation. The curved verandah roof

203-613: A kitchen and servants' rooms connected via a covered passageway. The core was surrounded by a 3-metre (9.8 ft) wide verandah. From 1855 to 1860 John Vincent Cassim, a Kangaroo Point boarding house keeper, leased Cleveland House as a boarding establishment. Stabling, a coach-house, store and tap were erected in mid-1860. By 1862 the building had been leased by publican William Rae as the Brighton Hotel, with its own bathing-house and jetty, and 10-metric-ton (9.8-long-ton; 11-short-ton) pleasure cutter. The building also served as

232-498: A series of miniature wall paintings depicting local historical events. The Grand View Hotel was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. The Grand View Hotel at Cleveland, the core of which was erected in the early 1850s, is important in demonstrating

261-464: A special association with FE Bigge and the movement to establish Cleveland as the port for Moreton Bay, and Ipswich as the capital. [REDACTED] This Misplaced Pages article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from

290-890: A town Grand View, Wisconsin , an unincorporated community Grand View Estates, Colorado Grandview Heights, Ohio Grand View Mountain, another name for Snake Mountain Grandview Peak , a mountain in Utah Grandview Plaza, Kansas , a city Grandview Township (disambiguation) Other uses [ edit ] Grandview, the fictional town in which much of the CBS series Ghost Whisperer takes place GrandView (software) , an outliner software package no longer supported by Symantec Grandview Triangle , highway interchange in Kansas City, Missouri See also [ edit ] Grandview, U.S.A. ,

319-466: A venue for Anglican services prior to the construction of St Pauls Anglican Church nearby in 1874. In 1878 the property was acquired by publicans Andrew and Mary Goodall, and the hotel appears to have been extended to the southeast. Major alterations that give the building its present two-storeyed form are likely to have been carried out in the late 1880s or mid-1890s, when the Cleveland railway line

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348-463: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Grand View Hotel Grand View Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 49 North Street, Cleveland , City of Redland , Queensland , Australia. It was built c.  1852 onwards. It was also known as Brighton Hotel and Cleveland House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The core of this complex of buildings

377-589: Is set down below a main roof of hipped perimeter. One chimney rises above the ridges. The verandahs have cast iron balustrade , brackets and valance , alluding to, but differing from, an earlier design. Below the balustrade is a patterned boarded timber frieze . Rear and southwest verandahs are enclosed with flat sheeting. The principal internal walls are of rendered brick. A wide central hall divides each level. The upper level, structurally intact, includes an ornate fireplace and has been adapted as private living quarters. French doors with fanlights open onto

406-522: The "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014). [REDACTED] Media related to Grand View Hotel, Cleveland at Wikimedia Commons Grandview, U.S.A. The original music score is composed by Thomas Newman . It was filmed on location in Pontiac and Fairbury, Illinois . After being out of print on VHS for many years,

435-564: The Demolition Derby, Tim is competing against Slam in the race. At the climax, Slam crashes into Tim, injuring him. Thinking he did it on purpose, Mike sends him off the track. Then, as Candy and Donny are having sex in his house, Slam bulldozes it and he is arrested. As Tim and Mike drive home from the hospital, they see firetrucks and find the Speedway has burned down. Mike asks her mother what has happened, but she doesn't know. In

464-543: The adjacent property to the Speedway and will go bankrupt if the deal doesn't go through.) Tim then argues with his father and leaves. Tim runs into Mike, who thanks him for saving her place. Going for a burger, she invites him over, and they spend the night together. Mike offers Tim a car to drive in the Derby. In the morning Slam shows up, finding them in bed together; he leaves upset, thinking Mike turned him down because of Tim. Later on that day, Roger apologizes to Tim about

493-435: The bar to see her uncle, Bob, asking to borrow $ 10,000 to fix up the Speedway. He doesn't have it but wants to help. Just then, they both hear a drunken Slam beating on a video game. Mike and Bob help him out to his truck, and she and Slam talk about old times. Hungover at work the next morning, Slam's boss sends him home. When he arrives, he finds Candy with Donny. Enraged, he jumps on his car demanding she come back to him, in

522-460: The car with Tim. Slam stops at the bowling alley asking for his wife Candy, who hasn't been there, suspecting she is cheating. The next morning, when Tim visits his father at work, he tells Tim he does not want him to drive his car again. Running into Mike, he thanks her for helping him with the car and asks to drive in the derby. Tim goes out to the Speedway, where he meets Mike's mentally challenged brother, Cowboy. Later on that night, Mike goes to

551-412: The evolution and pattern of early European settlement in Queensland, its construction illustrating the diverse forces operating within that pattern. The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage. It contains surviving evidence of one of the earliest buildings in Cleveland. The Grand View Hotel demonstrates a rare aspect of Queensland's history, as one of

580-433: The fight. He asks Tim to reconsider Illinois State University , but he still wants to go to Florida. At the Speedway, Mike sells her old cars to make extra money, upsetting Cowboy, who runs off crying. Slam goes to his house and sees his stuff on the lawn, getting wet under the lawn sprinkler. Donny taunts him by the door with a shotgun, telling him he called the cops. Slam leaves with his wet things. Later that night, at

609-554: The film was released on DVD on October 4, 2011. Tim Pearson, a Grandview High School senior, wants to study oceanography in Florida . His father Roger loans him his brand new Cadillac to go to the prom with Bonnie Clark. Later, making out in the car near a stream, it rolls in, so they walk to "Cody's Speedway" for a tow. When Bonnie's father comes for her, he punches Tim in anger. Mechanic Michelle "Mike" Cody defends him, and has local demolition derby driver Ernie "Slam" Webster tow

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638-528: The meeting, and he tells him he's declining his ISU scholarship to go to Florida to study oceanography; Roger isn't too pleased. At the Town Hall, Roger asks Tim to get something in his office. There, he sees the Speedway renovation plans. At the meeting, Mike requests more time to get the money to fix up the Speedway, but the commission won't give it to her. Tim reveals they plan to put a country club and golf course on Mike's land. (Roger has already bought all of

667-408: The morning, however, the police discover that the gas tank was unlocked. Cowboy had started the fire because Mike sold the old cars. Tim and Mike talk, and she admits she is in love with Slam. Mike bails Slam out of jail and he offers to help fix the Speedway, but she says she'll sell to Roger so they can afford to start a life together. She then asks him for a favor. Tim is on his way to Chicago. As

696-508: The oldest extant hotels in Queensland in continuous use. The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. The building is important in exhibiting a landmark quality and contribution to the Cleveland Point townscape, which is valued by the Cleveland community The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history. The place has

725-474: The process, Donny shoots himself in the foot. At the hospital, Candy doesn't press charges, but won't come home. She files a restraining order so Slam cannot be within 50 feet of her. That night, when Mike sees Slam sleeping in his truck, she comforts him, believing he does not really love Candy but is only afraid of being alone. Later, he invites Mike out to dinner but she can't. (She has a County Commission meeting, but doesn't say so.) Tim and his dad also go to

754-405: The two-storeyed structure, on the southwest face, is a small chamferboard , single-storeyed building with a hipped roof and a separate curved roof over a narrow verandah. It opens on to the beer garden and, internally, a portion of the higher, boarded ceiling remains. Adjoining these buildings is a complex of rooms, under shallow skillion roofs, surrounded by parapets . The public bar contains

783-586: The verandahs, and a spacious stairwell, with painted turned timber balustrade, is lit by skylight through a tapering timber boarded shaft. The lower level contains reception rooms and a kitchen. A large room with a marble and tiled fireplace opens to the northeast through French doors, with casement windows above, which may date from the 1850s. The main entrance, in the northeast wall, has side lights of clear and red glass with an early stencilled glass fanlight. The main foyer , formerly verandah space, contains some early brickwork free of paint or render. Abutting

812-657: Was erected in the early 1850s for the Hon. Francis Edward Bigge , Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council , who purchased the site in August 1851. In the 1840s and 1850s squatters from the Darling Downs and Ipswich interests urged for recognition of Cleveland Point, which had served as the port for Dunwich during the convict period, as the port for Moreton Bay . Francis Bigge,

841-578: Was opened to Cleveland Central and later extended to Cleveland Point. It became known as the Grand View Hotel c.  1910 , and remained in the Goodall-Singh family until 1936. Other outbuildings have been added since the 1940s. Five miniature, representational murals on the wall behind the public bar probably were painted in the 1950s, and the complex was renovated in 1982 and again in 1992. The Grand View continues to operate as

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