The Sturgeon House is operated as museum by the Fairview Area Historical Society.

The Sturgeon House is located at the intersection of Water Street and Avonia Road (Pennsylvania Route 98).

[2] The house is constructed of "stone foundation walls and topped with heavy timber sills which are notched to receive log form beams.

[2] Jeremiah and William Sturgeon were the earliest settlers of what is now Fairview Township, who acquired land from the Pennsylvania Population Company in 1797.

[3] The Sturgeons operated "coach stops and taverns" in the area for travelers after the first road was cut from Erie to Cleveland, Ohio in 1805.