Redlands is a historic farmhouse near the city of Circleville in the south-central part of the

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. A grand home built in the middle of the 19th century, it has been named a

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. Constructed in 1858, Redlands was originally the home of one of Pickaway County's more prosperous farmers, Jacob Valentine. The farmhouse itself is a brick structure, built of bricks manufactured on the farm;Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 2.

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: Somerset, 1999, 1149. its

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and minor elements are stone, and additional buildings on the property are weatherboarded.,

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, 2007. Accessed 2013-03-01. Its construction and its numerous decorative elements combine to make it typical of estates built for wealthy southern Ohio landowners soon before the

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. Particularly significant among these elements are the

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front porch, transoms above the windows and doors, its prominent fireplaces, and its grand front stairway. Besides the residence, the farmstead comprises three outbuildings: two historic buildings, which are

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structures that had been completed by 1860, and one that lacks historic integrity. In 1982, Redlands was listed on the

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, qualifying because of its well-preserved historic architecture; the house and the two historic outbuildings were ranked as contributing, and the non-historic outbuilding was considered non-contributing. Crucial to the farm's designation was its status as an intact gentleman's estate from the end of the pre-Civil War period.

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{{National Register of Historic Places Houses completed in 1858 Greek Revival houses in Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Pickaway County, Ohio Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio