Tuckey-Lee Building

This brick building is believed to be the oldest commercial structure in downtown Welland. It was built circa 1856 in the early Italianate style for Dr. Alfred J. Burns.

The façade facing West Main Street displays many characteristics of this style, including an elaborate and profoundly projecting wooden cornice supported by ornamental brackets and underscored by a continuous decorative frieze, double hung two over two pane second-storey windows with semicircular arches topped with brick voussoirs and keystones, and a secondary decorative wooden cornice above two deeply recessed first-floor storefronts.

Number 75, the oldest storefront, remains virtually unchanged since the 19th century, with wooden columns flanking the entry and transom windows of coloured, pebbled glass in a fanlight pattern above its two display windows.