Neighborhood Transformed

Built in the 1890s, these houses reflect two eras of change in the Sweet Auburn community. At first they were homes to both white and black working-class tenants, but by 1910 this block, like most of Auburn Avenue, was solidly African-American. For the next 50 years, a succession of cooks, laundresses, candy makers, maids, and dress makers lived here. In the late 1970s, the triangle block of houses underwent another transformation when the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., began its initial efforts to restore and preserve the neighborhood of Dr. King's youth here and funded major rehabilitation of the three houses on this block.

Atlanta, Georgia · United States