Michigan Street Baptist Church

Macedonia Baptist Church
The Macedonia Baptist Church building
Michigan Street Baptist Church is located in New York
Michigan Street Baptist Church
Location within New York
Michigan Street Baptist Church is located in the United States
Michigan Street Baptist Church
Location within the United States
Location511 Michigan Ave., Buffalo, New York
Coordinates42°53′10″N 78°52′3″W / 42.88611°N 78.86750°W / 42.88611; -78.86750
Built1845
NRHP reference No.74001233[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 12, 1974

Macedonia Baptist Church, more commonly known as Michigan Street Baptist Church, is a historic African American Baptist church located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a brick church constructed in 1845. Samuel H. Davis was the congregation's fifth pastor, helped raise money for a church building, and as a mason did much of the construction himself. He gave the welcoming address at the 1843 National Convention of Colored Citizens of America.

Rev. J. Edward Nash (1868–1957) served the congregation from 1892 to 1953. His home, the Rev. J. Edward Nash, Sr. House, is located nearby.[2] Rev. Nash's papers are partially digitized at Buffalo State University.[3]

Site marker for the former Michigan Street Baptist Church.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

In 1997, Dr. Monroe Fordham wrote the first scholarly history of the congregation and its building.[4]

In 2013, the church was the subject of a thorough historic structure report, which is now online at Archive.org.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ Cornelia E. Brooke (October 1973). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Macedonia Baptist Church. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved October 21, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
  3. ↑ Nash, J. Edward. "Ref. J. Edward Nash Papers". Monroe Fordham Regional History Center at Butler Library. Buffalo State University. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  4. ↑ Fordham, Monroe. "Origins of the Michigan Street Baptist Church". Digital Commons. Buffalo State University. Retrieved 31 May 2026.
  5. ↑ Buffalo Niagara Freedom Station Coalition; Crawford & Sterns Architects; Historical New York Research Associates (2013). "Historic structure report for the Michigan Street Baptist Church" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-11-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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