Cairns Chinatown Building, Heritage brick building in Grafton Street, Cairns, Australia.

Cairns Chinatown Building is a brick structure on Grafton Street featuring traditional shopfront elements with large display windows and wide awnings that extend over the footpath. The heritage-listed building currently houses a restaurant while maintaining its late 19th century commercial character and original facade details.

Andrew Leon bought allotment 18, Section 27 from Robert Philp in 1886 and took out a £200 mortgage on Lot 2 with the Queensland National Bank in 1892; four shops were first recorded there in the 1893 rates book. The two shops were leased to the merchant brothers Lee Yan Kee, and in 1903 part of the site was sublet to a Chinese man and the Japanese woman O'Kunato. Sachs Street was renamed Grafton Street in the 1930s, and the building joined the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 May 2005.

Sachs Street, renamed Grafton Street in the 1930s to clean up the area's image, was the focus of Chinese life in Cairns, with boarding houses, gaming houses, opium dens and merchant stores. Andrew Leon, who arrived in 1876, was a leading merchant and trustee of the Lit Sung Goong Temple on the adjoining lot.

The building is easily visible and accessible from the street, located on a main thoroughfare in Cairns where you can view the exterior architecture. If you wish to spend time inside, the restaurant occupies the ground floor and offers a way to experience the interior spaces while dining.

The walls are made from handcrafted bricks of varying sizes and deep red tones, produced from iron-rich clay found locally. These irregular patterns reveal the early production methods and create an authentic, uneven appearance characteristic of the era.