How much do you know about Sweet Auburn? Take this quiz to test your "street smarts."
Questions
1. The Sweet Auburn Historic District is centered on what geographic feature?
2.Who coined the name Sweet Auburn?
3. What was the original name of the area’s farmer’s market, the district’s largest retail establishment and community gathering spot in the late 1910s?
4. When did it open?
5. Who raised money for the construction of the brick building which houses the market?
6. Who was commissioned to design this brick building?
7. A famous nightclub opened in 1938 on Sweet Auburn and hosted both local and national talents, including B. B. King, the Four Tops, and Gladys Knight. What was the original name of this club?
8. A famous black-owned insurance company was run from a building in this district. What was the name of this company?
9. Who founded it?
10. When?
11. Its headquarters building is of what architectural style?
12. The first black-owned office building in Atlanta is located on Sweet Auburn. What is its name?
13. Who constructed it?
14. When was Sweet Auburn designated a National Historic Landmark?
15. In 1992 Sweet Auburn was determined to be one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places by whom?
16. Atlanta's first black-owned daily newspaper, founded in 1928 and operated today by the great niece of its founder, is headquartered in Sweet Auburn. What is its name?
17. The Victorian 501 Auburn Avenue was the birthplace of which key figure of the American Civil Rights Movement?
18. Both the senior and junior Martin Luther King acted as pastor of which historic Auburn Avenue church?
19. What institution on Auburn Avenue furthers the teaching of Dr. King’s philosophy and was integral to the revitalization of the historic district itself?
20. When did the King birthplace and surrounding Sweet Auburn area became a National Historic Site & Preservation District?
Answers
1. Auburn Avenue.
2. John Wesley Dobbs, grandfather of former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson, used the moniker "Sweet Auburn" in Fortune in 1953.
3. The Municipal Market of Atlanta, now the Sweet Auburn Curb Market. In Jim Crow Atlanta, blacks were permitted only to patronize vendors lining the curb outside the market, while whites were free to shop inside, a fact referenced in the current name.
4. May 1, 1924.
5. The Woman’s Club of Atlanta.
6. Atlanta architect A. Ten Eyck Brown of Morgan & Diller, who also designed the Fulton County Courthouse and the Cyclorama.
7. The Top Hat Club.
8. The Atlanta Life Insurance Company.
9. Alonzo Herndon, a former slave from Walton County, Georgia.
10. 1905.
11. Beaux Arts, a style characterized by its use of historic forms and rich decorative details and its tendency toward the monumental.
12. The Rucker Building.
13. Henry A. Rucker, the first African-American collector of internal revenue in Georgia.
14. 1976.
15. The National Trust for Historic Preservation.
16. The Atlanta Daily World.
17. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
18. The Ebenezer Baptist Church.
19. The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
20. October 10, 1980.