The main building was constructed in 1965-66. It is a single story building containing staff offices, a teaching laboratory, a preparation laboratory, a classroom - wildlife viewing gallery overlooking Rice Pond, and storage and utility space.

Outbuildings include a workshop and tool shed, a two-car garage used for storing grounds equipment and the station's Boston Whaler, and an open pavilion.

The Field Station laboratories are equipped with dissection and compound microscopes and a stock of standard biology supplies and equipment. Field equipment maintained by the station includes standard botanical, zoological, and entomological collecting equipment, an array of ecological and limnological measuring and sampling devices, and a Boston Whaler and other small outboard motor boats and canoes for use on Lake Ontario, the Oswego harbor and river, and other inland waters including Rice Pond.