Isaac Beecher House circa 1820

The Isaac Beecher house, in which part of the museum is situated, is itself, an historical landmark. The land on which the house stands was first deeded to Daniel Jones in 1790, one of the area's early settlers.

In 1824, Isaac Beecher, who had arrived in the Brockville area from the United States, bought the Daniel Jones property. Beecher owned the house until his death in 1870 at the age of 77. In 1897, the property was sold to the Central Canada Coal Company, which retained possession until 1976 when the City of Brockville, with assistance from the Brockville and District historical society, purchased the house and its surrounding property.

Architecturally speaking, the Beecher House is a well preserved example of a vernacular loyalist building. The two end walls of the main building rise above the roof line to form an upward sloping parapet with chimneys at the peaks. This is typical of the type of house erected in New England before the American Independence. It is also typical of buildings built under the regulation existing in New France before the English takeover.