The Edmund Gleason Farm is a

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in Valley View,

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. The core house was built in 1851 and was listed on the

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in 1978 along with another building, on a property. The historic designation was expanded in 1993 to add including a dairy barn. In the twentieth century, the property became part of the

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.Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 226-227. Gleason's house is a

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structure built into a hillside near the main line of the

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. Its plan is that of a simple rectangle, divided into two

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on the ends and five on the front and rear, with the main entrance in the middle bay of the facade. The ends rise to

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s, and elements such as

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and an undecorated

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produce a

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appearance. The original structure was modified circa 1880, when a shed-roofed wooden porch was constructed; it bears its own ornamentation, including a bracketed frieze and a spindled railing. Gleason and his wife Charlotte settled in present-day Valley View in an unknown year, although his first appearance in the tax records dates from 1843. According to the 1850 census, Gleason was a native of

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, and at the time of the census, he was engaged in farming.

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