It is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame structure with red pressed brick walls laid in black mortar built in 1884.

Built originally as a private home, it was unfinished at the time of its builders death in 1925 and given to the Herkimer County Historical Society who occupied it in 1935.

[2] It the mid-1990s the Society built and renovated the adjacent Eckler House and moved its offices into that building.

The Suiter building remained the museum and repository for artifacts and ephemera.

[1] The 1884 Herkimer County Historical Society Suiter Building Museum features exhibits about the county's early settlers and transportation, agriculture, industry and domestic life, and displays about the former Fairfield Academy.