It is an eleven-story steel or iron framed brick clad structure built between 1887 and 1888 in a modified Romanesque style.

It was designed by noted Rochester architects Warner & Brockett.

[1] The Wilder Building originally contained spires at each corner of its roof, but they have since been removed.

[3] James Goold Cutler received U.S. Patent 284,951 on September 11, 1883, for the mail chute.

Then, during its 1887 construction, Cutler installed a perfected mail chute in the Wilder Building.