Vernon Redding
{{short description|American architect}}
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| birth_date = October 7, 1866 - December 22, 1939
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Vernon Redding (October 7, 1866 – ?) was an architect in Mansfield, Ohio.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nmNAAQAAMAAJ&dq=vernon+redding+mansfield&pg=RA2-PA54|title=The Ohio Architect and Builder|date=November 24, 1907|publisher=Cleveland Engineering Society|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.onlinebiographies.info/oh/nco/redding-v.htm|title=Vernon Redding - North Central Ohio Biographies|website=www.onlinebiographies.info}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2019/08/01/much-downtown-mansfield-now-listed-national-register-historic-places/1879604001/|title=Much of downtown Mansfield now on National Register of Historic Places|first=Monroe|last=Trombly|website=Mansfield News Journal}} He designed the Ashland County Courthouse (Ohio), Huron County Courthouse and Jail (1913) and one or more buildings in Center Street Historic District (Ashland, Ohio). He also designed Mansfield's Carnegie library built in 1908.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mrcpl.org/about-us/mrcpl-then-now-and-future/library-history-and-timeline|title=Library History & Timeline|first=Mansfield Richland County Public|last=Library|website=www.mrcpl.org}} Several buildings he designed are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Herbert S. Jones and William L. Althouse, who went on to form Althouse & Jones, began their careers working for Redding.{{Cite web|url=http://www.onlinebiographies.info/oh/nco/jones-hs.htm|title=Herbert S. Jones - North Central Ohio Biographies|website=www.onlinebiographies.info}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.onlinebiographies.info/oh/nco/althouse-wl.htm|title=William L. Althouse - North Central Ohio Biographies|website=www.onlinebiographies.info}}
Work
- A. C. Edmondson Residence at 297 Mt. Vernon Avenue in Marion, Ohio.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/299612237/?terms=edmondson%20residence%20vernon%20redding&match=1| title=The A. C. Edmondson Residence}}
- Adam Howard House at 230 South Boston Street in Galion, Ohio. NRHP listed
- Citizens Bank of Shelby, 1911 29 W Main St in Shelby, OH{{Cite web |date=2022-12-10 |title=Landmarks Of Richland: Citizens Bank, Shelby {{!}} 1812Blockhouse |url=https://1812blockhouse.com/history-tourism/landmarks-of-richland-citizens-bank-shelby/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |language=en}}
- City Hall and Opera House, 156 N. Water St. in Loudonville, Ohio. NRHP listed
- May Realty Building at 22-32 South Park Street in Mansfield. NRHP listed
- Ohio Power Company building at 604 Main Street in Zanesville, Ohio. NRHP listed
- Mansfield Savings Bank building{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0YxMAAAAYAAJ&dq=vern9n+redding+architect&pg=PA200-IA26|title=American Architect and Architecture|date=November 24, 1912|publisher=The American Architect|via=Google Books}} NRHP listed
- 2-story brick business block in Loudenville{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHooAAAAYAAJ&dq=vernon+redding+mansfield&pg=RA1-PA69|title=Ohio Architect and Builder|date=November 24, 1904|via=Google Books}}
- Ohio Theatre in Loudonville{{Cite news|url=https://www.heritageohio.org/loudonville/|title=Loudonville|website=Heritage Ohio}} NRHP listed
- Farmers Bank Building, now Chase Bank
- Leland Hotel, formerly the tallest building in Mansfield (demolished in 1976){{Cite web |url=https://www.richlandsource.com/area_history/native-son-shadow-of-the-leland-hotel/article_d275b928-b6ff-11e6-b872-4f0f910db8b7.html |title=Native Son: Shadow of the Leland Hotel |publisher=Richland Source |access-date=December 30, 2021 |date=December 3, 2016 }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.richlandsource.com/area_history/the-mansfield-leland-hotel/image_22fa16c4-a702-11e4-9904-7f03c8281122.html |title=The Mansfield-Leland Hotel |publisher=Richland Source |access-date=December 30, 2021 |date=February 14, 2015 }}
- Barrington Building{{Cite web|url=https://1812blockhouse.com/history-tourism/landmarks-of-mansfield-mechanics-bank-building/|title=Landmarks of Mansfield: Mechanics Bank Building|date=June 21, 2018}}
- The Rigby House{{Cite web|url=https://1812blockhouse.com/history-tourism/landmarks-of-mansfield-the-rigby-house/|title=Landmarks Of Mansfield: The Rigby House|date=December 24, 2018}} NRHP listed
- Balgreen Farm house on Marion Avenue Road
- The Kern House{{Cite web|url=https://1812blockhouse.com/history-tourism/landmarks-of-mansfield-the-kern-house/|title=Landmarks of Mansfield: The Kern House|date=October 4, 2019}}
- Central United Methodist
- Mansfield General Hospital
- Clubhouse at Westbrook{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pswAU6UsA0YC&dq=leland+hotel+mansfield+vernon+redding&pg=PA83|title=Mansfield|first=Timothy Brian|last=McKee|date=March 2, 2007|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738550923|via=Google Books}}
- Ashland County Courthouse at W. 2nd St. in Ashland, Ohio. NRHP listed
- Huron County Courthouse and Jail on E. Main St. and Benedict Avenue in Norwalk, Ohio. NRHP listed.
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