Michigan Street Baptist Church - Table of Contents

Michigan Street Baptist Church
511 Michigan Avenue (between Broadway and William), Buffalo, N.Y.

Founded:

28 May, 1837

Building erected:

1845-1849
See also:
Highlights of Buffalo History, 1849

Builder

Samuel H. Davis


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Left: J. Edward Nash House ... Michigan Street Baptist Church ... Colored Musicians Club

Left: Jesse Nash House ... Michigan Street Baptist Church ... Building saved from demolition in 2002

Nineteenth Century photo

Compound arch

Dentils above rounded window

Site of an Underground Railroad Station

J. Edward Nash House

Note two historic markers. Left: Mary Talbert, Underground Railroad Station

Mary Talbert

Mary Talbert marker

 

Other possible underground railroad sites in Western New York:

Dr. Harry Fosdick Home, Buffalo
First Shiloh Baptist Church, Buffalo
Methodist Episcopal Church, Buffalo
Morris-Butler House, Buffalo (1837-1927)
Durham Memorial AME Zion Church
Clinton Hall
Eagle House, Williamsville
First Presbyterian Church, Lewiston, NY
Asa Warren house (c. 1820) Eden, NY
Obadiah Baker House, Orchard Park, NY
Presbyterian Church, Lockport
Union Meeting House, Collins Center, Erie County
Moss House (Lockport YWCA)
Hull-Peterson House, Lancaster
Griffins Mills Presbyterian Church, East Aurora
Seldon Ely Farm, Cheektowaga
Tryonís Folly, Lewiston, Niagara County
Martha Root House, Pekin

- from a research paper by Amy Sobierajski, Dept. of Anthropology, Syracuse University





Photos and their arrangement © 2003 Chuck LaChiusa
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