February 8, 2010

Every Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. in February, Buffalo Tours will offer their Queen City Downtown walking tour for free when the temperature is 25 degrees or below.  For each degree above 25 the cost goes up $1.00 to a maximum of $10 per adult ($5 for students).  Price is determined 15 minutes before the tour using the Weather Channel website for 14203 zip code.  Tours meet in the Buffalo Visitor Center, located at 617 Main Street in the Market Arcade Building.  In the coldest weather, Buffalo Tours' trained, volunteer docents quickly go from historic interior to historic interior, from M&T's gold dome to St. Paul's Cathedral.  This Winter Special is the brainchild of Fred Schrock, Preservation Buffalo Niagara's Education Coordinator, who held a walking tour last February for twenty people.  The temperature that day: three degrees Fahrenheit, not including the wind chill factor.  This special cannot be combined with coupons and there is no change given for Buffalo Tour Bucks.
 
Buffalo Tours is a public education program of Preservation Buffalo Niagara, a nonprofit organization created to identify, preserve, protect, promote and revitalize historically and architecturally significant sites, structures, neighborhoods, commercial districts and landscapes in Erie and Niagara Counties.  Visit BuffaloTours.org for schedules and more information.