The Bartlett-Travis house embodies three distinct architectural periods of southeastern Michigan. Its early form, circa 1840, was a story-and-a-half Greek Revival cottage typical of second-generation houses built in Canton, where Maria and Thomas Bartlett and their children lived until the 1860s. Two of the Bartlett sons served in the Civil War and fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. Their son George Bartlett later moved into the old place and remodeled it in the 1870s, giving it a full second floor, a rear kitchen ell, new windows, and an Italianate porch. William and Martha Travis owned the house from 1908 to the 1950s, and the Travis family added its large Colonial Revival wraparound porch in 1919. After changing hands several times, the house was donated by Ken Dividock to Canton in 1988 to preserve it, moved to this site in 1989, restored beginning in 1993, and completed and opened to the community in 2002, with several Travis family members attending and recalling childhood memories while taking pleasure in seeing it preserved. Today it is open to the public and available for rentals.