Crime and Scandal in Buffalo

The expectations for this tour may have influenced my opinion but this tour came up short of the others I have attended. It was billed as a chance to learn why Buffalo was a center of prohibition evasion but this was not mentioned for more than 5 minutes. I still found the tour to be interesting when we got to the site of the former Ku Klux Klan headquarters. This building was home to the organization until the residents of the city fought to run them out of town. The story that guides told was very entertaining and insightful. The tour started to become more of an architectural tour than a crime and scandal tour. We learned about the Guaranty building because at the time of building Sullivan was moonlighting from is job with Frank Lloyd Wright. I was amazed to learn of a triple hanging at the site of the McKinley monument in front of the City Hall. I think the cold weather and constant political insights from the guides may have drawn some life out of the tour but I will say it was still very educational.

Former HQ of KKK