Martin Luther King House

Visit the historic home where Dr. King was born and lived for 12 years. Learn about the family, the church, and the restoration project of this Queen Anne Victorian style house.

The Birth Home of Dr. King may be visited only with a park ranger led tour, which is filled on a first-come, first served basis. Register for the tour at the Information Desk, located in Martin Luther King, Jr.

National Historic Site Visitor Center, in person upon arrival to the park. The tour is strictly limited to 10 people per tour. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Birth Home is a house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., where civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., was born on . The house is part of the larger Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

HOUSE TOUR The interior of Martin Luther King Jr.s birth home on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, can be seen on a Ranger-guided tour only. Tours are limited to 10 people and are typically held at least every hour, and every half hour if staffing allows, starting at 10 AM, with the last tour at 4 PM. Learn about the sites in Atlanta, Georgia related to the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

The park includes his boyhood home, Ebenezer Baptist Church, his grave site, and a visitor center and museum. Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home Visit the home where Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born and where he lived the first 12 years of his life. Free ranger-led tours are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The home is open daily for tours (except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day) between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Birth Home of Martin Luther King, Jr Gary Tarleton, NPS, HFC Due to temporary closure of the Martin Luther King, Jr.

Birth Home during renovations. Our Interpretation conducts daily Birth Home Presentations inside of the bookstore nextdoor. Please visit our calendar for our presentation schedule.

The presentation is free of charge and is approximately 30 minutes long. Please visit our Vistors ... About the cover: Undated photo of Martin Luther King, Jr.

at the King Family Home. (Source: MALU Archives.) The report presented here exists in two formats. A printed version is available for study at the park, the Interior Region 2 - South Atlantic Gulf office of the National Park Service, and at a variety of other repositories.

Built in 1895, for a white family, coincidentally in the same year in which Martin Luther King Jr. 's paternal grandparents were married. In 1909, the 13-room, two-story, frame house was purchased for $3,500 by MLK Jr.'s maternal grandfather, the Rev.

Adam Daniel Williams (1863-1931), Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church situated about a block to the west. In his parents' bedroom upstairs on ... Martin Luther King, Jr.

was born in Atlanta at this home of his maternal grandparents, A.D. and Jennie Williams, on . A.D.

Williams purchased the house in 1909. When Martin Luther King, Sr. married Alberta Williams, the King family moved into the house on Auburn Avenue where they lived until 1941.

The birth home is one block east of Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church.