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historic buildings
in order of appearance
Big
Bethal A.M.E. Church

1840; 212 Auburn Avenue
 Wheat Street
Baptist Church

1869; 365 Auburn Avenue
Ebenezer
Baptist Church

1886; 407-413 Auburn Avenue
 Atlanta Life
Insurance Company

(main, annex and new)
pre-1892; 142-148 Auburn Avenue
YMCA
1894; 20-24 Butler Street (now Jesse Hill Street)
 Fire
House #6

1894; Auburn Avenue and Boulevard
 Rucker Building
1904; 158-160 Auburn Avenue (dem)
Odd Fellows
Building

1912; 236-260 Auburn Avenue
 Herndon
Building

1924; 243 Auburn Avenue (dem)
 148 Edgewood Avenue SE -Built in 1926 by the Georgia Railway and Power Company- Count the windows and divide by 2–It would be perfect for Divine 9 Sororities and Fraternities  Tabor
Building

1927; 330 Auburn Avenue
  Daily
World Newspaper

1928; 145 Auburn Avenue
Royal Peacock

1930’s; 186 1/2 Auburn Avenue

 Prince
Hall Masonic Temple

1937; 332-334 Auburn Avenue
  John Wesley
Dobbs Book Depository/ Apex Museum

1940’s; 141 Auburn Avenue
people
life times
Booker T.
Washington
1856-1915
Alonzo
Herndon
1858-1927
John
Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope
1868-1936
1871-1947
W.E.B. Dubois
1868-1963
George A.
Towns
1870 -1960
John Wesley
Dobbs
1882-1961
Ex-mayor
William Hartsfield
1890-1970
Walter White 1893-1955
Editor Ralph
McGill
1898-1969
Irene Dobbs
Jackson
1908-1999
Ex-mayor Ivan
Allen
b.1911
Matiwilda
Dobbs Janzon
1925-2015
Duke Ellington. 1927-1962
Dr. Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
1929-1968
Quotes   year
From Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch p53-54. 1930
From Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch, pg 477: 1961
From Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch p301-302 1961
events that built the future   year
The 13th,
14th and 15th Amendments
1865, 1868 , 1870
Niagara Movement
and NAACP
1905
Brown v. The
Board of Education
1954
Mayors
of Atlanta
1855-2025
culture that built the future  
Churches
Banks
Voting
Atlanta
University Center
Legal Battles/
Civil Rights History
Small
Businesses
Professionals
Communication
Media
Social
Organizations
primitive
culture
the walls that came tumbling down…
Jim Crow
Ku Klux Klan
Lynching
Race Riot of 1906