John and Elizabeth Brown Oldham built this one-and-one-half story Victorian Eclectic house in 1907. They met while John was working in a grocery store in Sandy, married in 1895, and had six children. John owned Oldham and Powell's general merchandise store, ran a slaughterhouse, and served as sexton of the Sandy City Cemetery during the flu epidemic of 1915 and World War I. Elizabeth was a midwife and a nurse, and she died in 1932. In 1936, John sold the house to his daughter, Blanch Cowley, and her husband, Wilford, who lived here until 1975. The Oldham family house reflects the era of specialized agriculture, small business, and community development, and it expresses the level of craftsmanship attained locally during a shift to more substantial and elaborate homes. Victorian forms were popular in Utah during 1885-1915, and the central-block-with-projecting-bays was an important basic form of the Victorian house.