May 20th Stop 18 on the ACCORD Tour- 156 Martin Luther King Avenue, the home of Nurse Janie Price- Dr King and other stayed here during the movement also.

156 M.L. King Avenue

Inscription. The house at 156 Central Avenue was built in the 1950's for Mrs. Janie Price, a nurse at Flagler Hospital. She had taken her nurse's training at Grady Hospital in Atlanta in the 1940s and while there had attended dances with students from Morehouse College--one of them a teenager named Martin Luther King, Jr. When Dr. King came to St. Augustine during the campaign that led to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, this was one of the houses where he stayed. Mrs. Price remembered Dr. King and his colleague, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, eating breakfast here before going off to be arrested at the Monson Motor Lodge on the bay front--an event that made international news. In 1985 the name of Central Avenue was changed to honor Martin Luther King. Many cities have streets named for Dr. King, but this one is special because he actually stayed on it in the course of changing history. This Historical Marker Presented this 2nd Day of July, 2007 by: Northrop Grumman Erected 2007 by The 40th Anniversary to Commemorate the Civil Rights Demonstrations, Inc. (ACCORD).  Marker series. This marker is included in the Florida, St. Augustine Freedom Trail, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. marker series. Location. 29° 52.914′ N, 81° 18.803′ W. Marker is in St. Augustine, Florida, in Saint Johns County. Marker is on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave..