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The National Park Service owns 22 structures within the historic site, although many are rented to neighborhood residents and not open to the public. Nearly all have been restored to their 1930 appearance, including a row of "shotgun" houses across the street and west of King's birth home. The houses -- so named because a shotgun blast could supposedly enter through the front door and exit through the back without touching a wall -- were built in 1905 for the employees of a nearby textile factory.
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