{"nrhp_refnum":"00000741","name":"Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Freedom Pkwy., John Wesley Dobbs Ave., Decatur St., Southern RR tracks, and I-75/85","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.75522992100008,"lon":-84.37573201499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-06-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Ethnic Heritage-Black","Social History","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture","Religion","Landscape Architecture","Education","Industry","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An amended historic district of about 280 acres in the Auburn Avenue neighborhood east of Interstate 75/85 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. It enlarges the 1974 Martin Luther King, Jr., Historic District and covers residential, commercial, institutional and industrial development from c. 1853 to 1968.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its connection to Martin Luther King, Jr., who grew up there in the 1930s and early 1940s and returned to Atlanta in 1960, and for its link to the American Civil Rights Movement. It also reflects the neighborhood's change from an integrated residential area in the late 19th century to a mixed-use, largely black community of key importance from the 1910s through the Civil Rights era.","narrative":"This amended historic district covers roughly 280 acres of the Auburn Avenue neighborhood in Atlanta, east of the Interstate 75/85 corridor. It enlarges the district first listed in 1974 and extends its period of significance to 1968. Most of its 482 contributing resources are single-family houses, along with duplexes, apartment buildings, churches, schools, commercial blocks on Edgewood and Auburn avenues, and industrial sites beside the Southern Railroad. Development occurred in three phases: an integrated late 19th-century neighborhood, a substantial early 20th-century phase after the area became a large black residential enclave, and mid-century low-income apartment construction. The 1917 Atlanta fire destroyed much of the area north of Auburn Avenue, prompting rebuilding in the following decade. Martin Luther King, Jr., grew up here and later worked and worshiped at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The district is valued for that connection, for its role in the Civil Rights Movement, and for the community's history.","period_of_significance":"c. 1853-1968","architect_builder":"Alexander D. Hamilton and Son; Pharrow Construction Company (builders of some houses)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque); Bungalow/Craftsman; Moderne; International Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current uses include dwellings, commercial buildings, churches, schools, a museum and manufacturing, and some resources are vacant or not in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.09196-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00000741.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000741/933f36cd79-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000741/933f36cd79-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"Jet Lowe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ebenezer-Baptist-from-pulpit.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208256","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._National_Historical_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5016739"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/martin-luther-king-jr-historic-district-boundary-increase-00000741/"}