Burchill & Howey Block
908 Rosser Avenue,
Brandon

Designation Date: February 19, 1990
Designation Authority: The City of Brandon
Present Owner: privately owned

Brandon was incorporated as a city in 1882, having bypassed because of its remarkable growth the necessity of village or even town status. By the turn of the twentieth century, Rosser Avenue, the city's main commercial thoroughfare, was a lively street, lined with buildings of the finest of architectural quality. One block, between 9th and 10th streets was amongst the best, boasting a number of fine building façades. One of these, built in 1906 for butchers Burchill and Howey, was a study in elegant styling, with arched windows, decorative brick and stone bands and corbel tables set at the top of the wall.