Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Brown-Hayes Department Store, 461-467 Edgewood Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

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. The Brown-Hayes Department Store stands in the once commercially active Edgewood Avenue area, which was second only to Auburn Avenue as the center of black business and social activities...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-80

Survey number: HABS GA-2169-E

Building/structure dates: ca. 1899 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1912 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: ca. 1985

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000677

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1933 - 1980

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