The 1½-story brick house exhibits aspects of the Gothic Revival style, especially in its plan, steeply pitched gables and bargeboard trim.

Stratton was a Pennsylvania native who moved to Michigan in 1820 where he was a surveyor, community leader, commissioner of highways and Justice of the Peace.

[2] After moving to Udell Township two years later his home was the location for the first religious service and the first election in the county.

His wife taught several local children in their home making it the first school in the northern part of the county.

This article about a property in Appanoose County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.