North FREEDOM PARKWAY To Carter Center

0 20 100 Meters From Freedom Parkway, turn south onto 0 100 500 Feet and follow signs to parking lot. Cain Street Boulevard John Wesley Dobbs Avenue International Boulevard

Parking lot John Wesley Dobbsentrance Avenue Butler Street Exit

Ellis Street

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John Wesley Dobbs Avenue Irwin Street Irwin Street Butler Street Courtland Street Piedmont Avenue Big Bethel African Alexander Hamilton, Jr., Methodist Episcopal Visitor Center Home 450 Auburn Ave. The visitor center 102 Howell St. Built 1890-95. This Church Fort Street has exhibits, a video program, and elegant house, whose architectural Hilliard Street John Wesley Dobbs Avenue 220 Auburn Ave. Built 1890s; re- Hogue Street built 1924. The church’s most prom- a schedule of park activities. details include a Palladian window Rucker Building National Park Service personnel and Corinthian columns, was home 158-60 Auburn Ave. Completed inent feature, the “Jesus Saves” sign on the steeple, was added when provide information and answer to ’s leading black building Insurance 1904. Atlanta’s first black office questions. contractor in the early 1900s. building was constructed by busi- the structure was rebuilt after a Double “Shotgun”

Company Building PROMENADE nessman and politician Henry A. 1920 fire. Row Houses 148 Auburn Ave. Completed 1920; Rucker. The King Center annex (142 Auburn) built 1936. From The Martin Luther King, Jr., Center 472-488 Auburn Ave. Built in 1905 Prince Hall Masonic for Empire Textile Company mill 1920 to 1980, this was the head- for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Jackson Street quarters of the country’s largest workers. Theoretically, a gunshot Howell Street Randolph Street Royal Peacock Club Odd Fellows Building Building was founded in 1968 by Coretta black-owned stockholder life insur- 184-86 Auburn Ave. Built 1922. and Auditorium 332-34 Auburn Ave. Completed could enter and leave the house ance company. 1941. ’s most influential Scott King and others. The center is through the perfectly aligned door- Bryant-Graves Home Known as the Top Hat until 1948, 228-50 Auburn Ave. Built 1912-14. headed by the Kings’ younger son, 522 Auburn Ave. Built in 1893-95. this entertainment spot has featured black Masonic lodge constructed ways, hence the name “shotgun.” Named for a fraternal organization this building which currently houses Dexter Scott King. This organization Former occupants include two such performers as Cab Calloway, begun in Atlanta in 1870, this six- continues Dr. King’s work toward prominent black citizens, Rev. Louis Armstrong, and Aretha the national offices of the Southern story complex provided Sweet Au- Christian Leadership Conference. economic and social equality. Peter James Bryant and real Franklin. burn residents with space for offices, estate developer Antoine Graves. stores, and meetings. Old Wheat Street PRESERVATION DISTRICT BOUNDARY Auburn Avenue Brooks Alley Plaza Old Wheat Street Statue, Rose Garden, To , , Fountain, and Amphitheater. and Ebenezer Baptist Auburn Avenue Auburn Avenue Church 407-13 Auburn Ave. Built 1914- Butler Street YMCA 22. Following the example of Fire Station APEX his father and grandfather, 20-24 Butler St. Built 1918-20. Atlanta Expressway Martin Luther King, Jr., served No. 6 Charles L. Harper Museum Founded in the basement of the as co-paster from 1960 until Wheat Street Baptist Church in 1968. Home 1894, the activist YMCA group 231-45 Auburn Ave. Built 1926. This Martin Luther King, Jr., 535 Auburn Ave. Built about 1895. met in several locations before multi-use structure was named for Our Lady Birth Home Professor Harper, who lived here building new quarters here. from 1910 to 1945, was principal of Auburn Avenue its builder, Alonzo F. Herndon, ex- Gravesite Boulevard of Lourdes 501 Auburn Ave. Built 1895. The slave and founder of the Atlanta Atlanta’s first black public high Research Library Wheat Street Baptist In the early 1970s, Dr. King’s body Catholic Queen Anne style house is restored school, Booker T. Washington High. Life Insurance Company. was moved from the Southview Church and to its appearance during the years Building Church Cemetery to a site next to Eben- 1929, when King was born, to 1941, 365 Auburn Ave. Built 1920-31. So- ezer Baptist Church. The present School when his family moved to a house PRESERVATION DISTRICT BOUNDARY 75 named because the original struc- memorial tomb was dedicated in Watkins- on Boulevard. ture was built when Auburn Avenue 1977. Anderson Building Edgewood Avenue 85 was called Wheat Street, the church 443-45 Edgewood Ave. Built has been a community institution 1905-10. This commercial structure since the late 1800s. has been completely renovated. 443

W Sr., Drive houses NPS staff offices and 445 Original Coca-Cola Curb Market m continues service under lease as a Auditorium Place Boaz Street . Holm 209 Edgewood Ave. Completed barbershop. Bottling Building 1923. Even during the years of le- gal segregation in Atlanta, both Coca-Cola Place NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE BOUNDARY Gartrell Place Butler Street Daniel Street blacks and whites shopped here es Borders, Chamberlain Street for fresh produce and meats. The market is still in operation. Hilliard Street ont Avenue Tanner Street Cooks Alley Edgewood/Auburn Ezzard Street Cornelia Street Avenue Exit To 20 Bradley Street

Piedm Howell St