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Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, 472-550 Auburn Avenue & 39 Boulevard Avenue, 472-550 Auburn Avenue & 39 Boulevard Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

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Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, 472-550 Auburn Avenue & 39 Boulevard Avenue, 472-550 Auburn Avenue & 39 Boulevard Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

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Significance: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta - the Upper Auburn Avenue area. Originally called Wheat Street in honor of one of Atlanta's pre-Civil War merchants. The name was changed in 1893 to the more stylish Auburn Avenue. As early as the 1880's Auburn Avenue became the center of Atlanta's black business and professional community. The interrelationship of residential, commercial, and religious architecture together with the strong black cultural history is representative of the life and work of Dr. King to the extent that the area was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977 and a unit of the National Park Service in 1980.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-76
Survey number: HABS GA-2169-A
Building/structure dates: after 1890
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000677

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Date

1933 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Hamilton, Alexander
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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