Presented by the Buildings Worth Saving
Committee of the Atlanta Preservation Center:

2005 List of Endangered Buildings:

Paschal’s Restaurant and Motel, 1959 and 1967
Address: 830 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.
Owner/Contact: Clark Atlanta University, Dr. Walter Broadnax, president, 404-880-8000
Threat: Demolition for dormitories; demolition permit renewed in March 2005. Efforts by the community continue to find a viable use for the buildings.

Paschal’s Restaurant was opened in 1959 by James and Robert Paschal and became a key gathering place for Civil Rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy and student activists from neighboring colleges in the 1960s. The Paschal brothers were active participants in the Civil Rights Movement and their restaurant became known as the “black city hall”. The International style motel was added in 1967.

 

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