Directors Don Webb and Ken Carpenter While helping NBHS achieve its mission of preserving and celebrating our City’s vibrant history, the...

Michael Stockstill, Bernie Svalstad, and Ken Carpenter NBHS members were treated to an interesting lesson on the metamorphosis of Orange...

Ribbon Cutting on June 26, 2025 with the Board of Directors and Elected Officials The NBHS Board of Directors hosted a festive...

Were you, or someone you know, born in Newport Beach in 1947 or before? If so was the doctor who delivered you Gordon Grundy? That...

NBHS Profile 2015 Gordon William Grundy As a lifelong advocate of his hometown Newport Beach, Gordon William “Bill” Grundy was a founder...

My family moved to Newport Beach when I was two years old, back in 1955. My grandfather, Donald G. Griswold, moved his manufacturing...

BOB REED Bob Reed was a strong man.  However, Bob didn’t acquire his strength rowing a dory several miles a day in the open sea as so...

Cinderella–Not! When we first moved to Corona del Mar, everything north of Fifth Avenue was open hills.  To the west, where Irvine...