New Jersey may have lost an important historical landmark after an early Saturday morning fire tore through a derelict structure that the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. once called home.
No one was injured in the fire, however, the state of New Jersey may have lost an important historical landmark.
NBC10's Brenna Weick visited the scene on Saturday to find the building heavily damaged and the roof seemingly caved in following the fire. The home, along the 700 block of Walnut Street in Camden, was used by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., between 1948 to 1951 when he was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
A movement had been underway that hoped to restore the building and transform it into a museum featuring"hidden gems about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King and their unique connection to the city of Camden," according to a website for the effort.
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