Though it no longer plays host to regularly scheduled services, the importance of the Michigan Street Baptist Church to the history of Buffalo’s African-American community cannot be overstated: it’s the oldest continuously black-owned property in Buffalo, in the years immediately prior to the Civil War it was notorious as a station on the Underground Railroad by which escaped black slaves from the South were spirited away to freedom in Canada, and it retains its prominence today as the centerpiece of the ”’Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor”’. Historical tours are offered by appointment.