Patterson Funeral Home is as rich in building history as it is in funeral service history.
Our home remains one of the oldest buildings standing in Niagara Falls.
The house was first constructed by Allan Ross. As quoted from Historical Houses - Niagara Falls A History, "This is a house with an interesting history related to early travel along Portage Road. In 1798, three mail stages per week travelled the Road between Niagara-on-the-Lake and Chippawa. In 1820, Alanson Ross, a carriage maker, came from Pennsylvania where he joined John Misener in his carriage shop on the corner of Main & Peer Streets and built this residence nearby. In 1826, he established the Ross Carriage Factory behind his house."

Over the years the home has served many functions.
At the turn of the 20th century until the early 1930's it served as an apartment building. On a few occasions, we have met people who stop and tell us that they were actually born in the home. During the 1930's, the home was used as a boarding home and was owned by the Rand sisters, who were also school teachers at Memorial School. The history of the home then becomes a little faded until 1950, when Brass and Smith purchased the home and turned it into a funeral home.

The funeral home had a number of owners over the next decade, namely Delvecchio, Aleo and Lynette.
In 1960 Hugh and Felice Hockton purchased the funeral home and operated it as Dermody & Hockton Funeral Home until 1974, when it was sold to Patricia and Francis Patterson.

The long family tradition of the Patterson Family in funeral service now joins together with the equally long building history as well as the funeral history itself. The name remained the same until 1986, when Pat and Francis changed the name to the current name Patterson Funeral Home.