Gleason, Edmund, Farm (Boundary Increase)

This farmstead on Canal Road in Valley View, Ohio, sits on the valley wall above the Cuyahoga River floodplain. It includes a two-story Greek Revival house of dressed sandstone built about 1854 for Edmund Gleason, a 1905 Wisconsin Dairy Barn, a granary, corncrib, shed, poultry house, the foundation of an earlier barn, and a field across Tinkers Creek Road. It extends the earlier listing of the house to cover the working farm. The property reflects the Cuyahoga Valley's agricultural history, from the railroad and scientific farming era to the decline after 1913. An 1880 census shows a dairy-focused operation that relied on hired labor. The barn follows a design developed at the University of Wisconsin, with a gambrel roof and rows of windows for light. The granary and corncrib are raised to keep out rodents and to ventilate stored grain. The farm retains its original layout and rural setting beside the Ohio & Erie Canal.