Physical evidence, including low stone walls and construction debris, suggests that several wood structures were also originally present on the site.

He constructed the four-mile Grandview Trail down to the copper mine, and in 1893 began hauling ore out by mule.

Although the ore was over 70% pure copper and won a prize at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the mine did not prove profitable, and in 1901 Berry and his partners sold it to the Canyon Copper Company, who operated it until 1907.

[2] The mine was then acquired by William Randolph Hearst, who sold it to the National Park Service in 1940.

Grandview is the type locality for grandviewite, a copper aluminium silicate.