If you are driving to the area from the west, from St. Catharines or from the centre
of Thorold, drive through the Thorold Tunnel, then turn left at the traffic light at Davis Road, and drive
down Davis Road until you get to a 1950s house on the right (east) side - the only building on that side of
that part of Davis Road. That is the former home of Bill Davis, who owned the former Bishop Fuller House in its last
days, and for whose family Davis Road was named.
Behind that “new” house is the spot where the
historic Bishop Fuller House was located, marked now only by a mound
of rubble that is all that is left of the old house. My recollection is that the house burned (as
the result of arson) on the night of April 9, 1994. What was left of the house after
the fire was torn down sometime in the weeks after that.
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Located at about maybe 200 yards north of the
corner of Old Thoroldstone Road and Davis Street intersection, on Davis Road in
Thorold. Now there is a memorial of this house at Lakeview cemetery in Thorold.
I visited this lot in June of 2003 after it
was torn down and all that remains is an open field of grass and weeds. We took some pictures of the vacant lot
and were quite surprised of what we discovered.
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