Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC)

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Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC)

HDDC is a nonprofit community development corporation founded in 1980 by Coretta Scott King to prese National Historic District.

HDDC was co-founded by Coretta Scott King, Christine King Farris and John Cox in 1980 as an all volunteer neighborhood-based organization with a charge to rehabilitate and revitalize the Martin Luther King Jr. As a non-profit community development corporation, HDDC is comprised of neighborhood residents, community leaders, community business people, and professional advisors. HDDC’s goal is to restore the area to the proud, economically diverse, and viable community that once existed as it maintains its historic character while preventing displacement of long-term residents. The Historic District lies within the Old Fourth Ward which was settled in the early 19th century by whites and free blacks. Residents came from all walks of life from physicians to Pullman porters, maids to ministers, contractors to cooks. One of the oldest neighborhoods in the City of Atlanta, its historic significance is greatly enhanced by the fact that Dr. King was born, lived and preached here. Dr. King’s family lived on Auburn Avenue until l94l and continued to live in the neighborhood until 1948. Dr. King returned to Atlanta in 1960 and served as co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, with his father MLK, Sr., until his untimely death in 1968.

Address

522 Auburn Avenue NE
Atlanta, GA
30312

Telephone

+14042159095

Website

http://www.hddc.net/

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