Birth Home of Martin Luther King, Jr

The two-story, yellow-painted Queen Anne house at five hundred one Auburn Avenue stands out on the street for its wraparound porch and ornate scroll-cut woodwork trim. Built in eighteen ninety-five, this frame structure became the childhood home of Martin Luther King, Jr. in nineteen twenty-nine. His maternal grandfather, the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, purchased the property for thirty-five hundred dollars two decades earlier.