Eli and Sidney Teeter Albertson House

The Eli and Sidney Teeter Albertson House is a rare Victorian example of the I-house form in Oakland Township. The I-house was more characteristic of the pioneer-era (1830s to 1850s) domestic architecture of Oakland County and southeastern Michigan than of the region's later nineteenth-century architecture. House forms such as the I-house and New England Large, commonly found in the township's and county's surviving early architecture, reflect the New England and New York state origins of a majority of the area's early nineteenth-century settlers. The Albertson House, with its bracketed trim, appears to represent a later, Victorian-era continuation of one of the area's early characteristic house forms.

Located on the northwest corner of Sheldon and Snell roads in Oakland Township, the Albertson House stands on a 4.9 acre remnant of an earlier farm. The house is a two-story frame mid-nineteenth century farmhouse with additions. Fronting on Sheldon Road to the east, the main structure is a rectangular, side-gabled, two-storied building five bays wide across the front and two deep. It has a centered front gable, a one-story entry porch, and a bay window to the south.

A series of connected one-story additions run to the west of the main structure. The entire structure has a fieldstone foundation, with clapboard siding, decorative wood trim, and an asphalt-shingled roof. The property is in excellent condition, with very few alterations made to the main structure since its construction.