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- 19:21, 1 June 2024 Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church (hist | edit) [61 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral) Tag: New redirect
- 17:57, 1 June 2024 St Luke’s African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (hist | edit) [36 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to St Luke AME Zion Church) Tag: New redirect
- 17:54, 1 June 2024 8th Avenue South (East Lake) (hist | edit) [451 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''8th Avenue South (East Lake)''' is the section of 8th Avenue South in South East Lake running from 78th Street South to 86th Street South. Most of 8th Avenue South in Birmingham is now known as University Boulevard. ==Notable locations== * 8301: former location of Lakewood Baptist Church * 8302: former location of Independent Methodist Church (1935) * 8429: Happy Kids Learning Center Category:Birmingham streets")
- 17:03, 1 June 2024 New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church (East Lake) (hist | edit) [1,151 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church''' is located at 6632 Kentucky Avenue in East Lake. The congregation was organized on July 4, 1918 by Dr. B. J. Brown. It was previously located at 1305 Sipsey Street in East Birmingham. A new building at that site was dedicated on August 27, 1961. That building was damaged by the explosion of 2 sticks of dynamite on in an anti-civil-bombing on January 16, 1962. The congregation relocate...")
- 16:43, 1 June 2024 New Bethel Baptist Church (hist | edit) [471 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''New Bethel Baptist Church''' may refer to any of the following: * Greater New Bethel Baptist Church, 4113 Inglenook Street * New Bethel Baptist Church (East Avondale) * New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church (East Lake), 6632 Kentucky Avenue, prior to 1992 located in East Birmingham at 1305 Sipsey Street. * New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church (West Brownville), 5208 54th Street Southwest {{disambig}}")
- 16:24, 1 June 2024 St Luke's AME Zion Church (hist | edit) [60 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to St Luke African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church) Tag: New redirect
- 11:15, 1 June 2024 Cycle Racing Association (hist | edit) [1,365 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Cycle Racing Association''' was an organization incorporated in September 1898 to promote bicycle racing and host national competitions at their 1/8th-mile track at the Slag Pile Field at the western edge of Birmingham. With the Southern League having folded the year bedore, the Birmingham Barons former field became available. The left-field bleachers were repurposed as a grandstand and a banked wooden track erected to specifications exceeding...")
- 11:03, 1 June 2024 East Lake Full Gospel Church (hist | edit) [49 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to East Lake Full Gospel Baptist Church) Tag: New redirect
- 10:58, 1 June 2024 New Era (hist | edit) [335 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''New Era''' was a periodical published in 1898–1899 by Harriet Ball, a former ''Birmingham Age-Herald'' editor. {{stub}} ==References== * "[https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-post-herald-newspaper-woman/148494578/ Newspaper Woman]" (September 17, 1898) {{BAH}}, p. 5")
- 10:18, 1 June 2024 List of homicides in 1898 (hist | edit) [965 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This is a '''List of homicides in 1898''', including all cases investigated in the Birmingham District. ==Jefferson County== * September 19: John Slaton, a private in the Clark Rifles of the 1st Alabama Volunteer Infantry was shot to death during a confrontation at their encampment in East Lake. David McClung, of the same company, was turned over to civil authorities to face murder charges. ([https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constit...")
- 10:08, 1 June 2024 List of Birmingham homicides in 1898 (hist | edit) [39 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to 1898 Birmingham homicides) Tag: New redirect
- 09:51, 1 June 2024 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment (hist | edit) [44 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to 1st Alabama Volunteer Infantry) Tag: New redirect
- 09:13, 1 June 2024 1st Alabama Volunteer Infantry (hist | edit) [5,681 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''1st Alabama Volunteer Infantry''' was a military unit organized in 1898 for service to the United States in the Spanish-American War. The Birmingham Battalion mustered at Union Station on May 1 and traveled via the Louisville & Nashville Railroad to Mobile. The unit returned to Birmingham on the L & N from Jacksonville, Florida on September 17. Mayor Frank Evans chaired a reception committee that organized their public welcome. Among...")
- 15:08, 31 May 2024 Genesis of Birmingham (hist | edit) [40 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Jim Burke Automotive Group) Tag: New redirect
- 14:05, 31 May 2024 James Randle (hist | edit) [882 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "right|thumb|375px|James Randle at home in 1967 '''James Randle''' (born c. 1901) was a faith healer and artist in Birmingham's Wahouma neighborhood. He adopted a philosophy dubbed "The New Mind" from his wife, using it as the basis for a vibrant scheme of geometrically-decorated walls and constructed "junk banisters" leading up from the sidewalk, painted in red, white and yellow. His healing practice, for which he did not charge a fe...")
- 12:03, 31 May 2024 School Service Center (hist | edit) [2,090 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''City Board of Education School Service Center''' is a 2-story brick building located at 2312 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard (formerly 2320–2326 8th Avenue North), on Block 3, immediately behind the former Phillips High School. It was constructed in 1922 as the business offices for the Birmingham Board of Education. The building also housed a carpentry shop, steam plant and warehouse for the new high school, to which it was connecte...")
- 11:20, 31 May 2024 Birmingham Board of Education Service Center (hist | edit) [35 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to School Service Center) Tag: New redirect
- 09:13, 31 May 2024 La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Birmingham Hoover (hist | edit) [478 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Birmingham Hoover''' is a 4-story motel at 120 Riverchase Parkway East in Hoover's Riverchase subdivision. The family of Rekhaben Shaile Patel purchased the motel from CorePoint Lodging Inc. of Irving, Texas for $7.2 million in 2022. {{stub}} ==References== * Stettheimer, Samuel (May 30, 2024) "Hotel on busy stretch of U.S. 280 sells for $6.3M." {{BBJ}} Category: Motels Category: Riverchase Parkway East")
- 08:52, 31 May 2024 Best Western Plus Birmingham Inn & Suites (hist | edit) [844 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Best Western Plus Birmingham Inn & Suites''', formerly the '''Wingate by Wyndham Birmingham''' is a 4-story, 53,109 square-foot, 50-room motel on a 3-acre lot at 800 Corporate Ridge Road, off of Meadow Brook Road in the Corporate Park North section of Meadow Brook Corporate Park. It was built in 1997. CEJ Hospitality LLC of Duluth, Georgia, owned by Charles and Eun Kim, acquired the property in 2019 for $5.9 million. Shree Sai Narayana LLC, i...")
- 08:38, 31 May 2024 Wingate by Wyndham Birmingham (hist | edit) [55 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Best Western Plus Birmingham Inn & Suites) Tag: New redirect
- 15:51, 30 May 2024 Adrian Peterson Fields (hist | edit) [1,561 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Adrian Peterson Fields''' (born c. 1976 in Birmingham) is the southeast regional director for the Office of Community Planning and Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Fields attended Alabama A&M University and earned her bachelor of science in accounting at Miles College, then went on to complete a master of public administration at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Publ...")
- 08:54, 30 May 2024 Wahouma Station (hist | edit) [21 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Wahouma) Tag: New redirect
- 17:37, 29 May 2024 George Watson (ABC News) (hist | edit) [2,759 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''George Henry Watson Jr''' (born July 27, 1936 in Birmingham; died June 1, 2023 in Bethesda, Maryland) was a long-time television news executive. Watson grew up in Birmingham and attended public schools. He participated in the U.S. Capitol Page program and attended Harvard College, where he edited ''The Harvard Crimson'' and earned a bachelor of arts in American History and Literature. He went on to complete a master's degree from Columbia Universi...")
- 16:03, 29 May 2024 Cecil Ingram (hist | edit) [27 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Hootie Ingram) Tag: New redirect
- 15:47, 29 May 2024 Hootie Ingram (hist | edit) [4,352 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Cecil Wayne "Hootie" Ingram Jr''' (born September 2, 1933 in Tuscaloosa; died May 6, 2024 in Birmingham) was a football player and coach, and served as director of athletics for the Alabama Crimson Tide from 1989 to 1995. Ingram was the son of Cecil Ingram Sr and the former Ella Mae Channell. He was a star athlete at Tuscaloosa High School, graduating in 1951. He attended the University of Alabama on an athletic scholar...")
- 12:44, 29 May 2024 Giano's Italian Restaurant (hist | edit) [34 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Giano's Italian Deli) Tag: New redirect
- 12:33, 29 May 2024 Mr Wang's Restaurant (hist | edit) [615 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Mr Wang's Restaurant''' is a Chinese restaurant located in the Wildwood Centre South shopping center at 217 Lakeshore Parkway. It was opened in 1998 by Taiwanese-born Tommy Wang, along with his wife, Susan, his parents Lin and Ko, and his siblings Alex and Sherry. {{stub}} ==References== * Fullman, Lynn Grisard (December 8, 2015) "Food Detective: Mr. Wang's Chinese Restaurant Vegeta...")
- 12:28, 29 May 2024 Mr. Wang's Restaurant (hist | edit) [34 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Mr Wang's Restaurant) Tag: New redirect
- 12:28, 29 May 2024 Mr. Wang's Chinese Restaurant (hist | edit) [34 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Mr Wang's Restaurant) Tag: New redirect
- 12:27, 29 May 2024 Mr Wang's Chinese Restaurant (hist | edit) [34 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Mr Wang's Restaurant) Tag: New redirect
- 12:13, 29 May 2024 Avonwood Offices (hist | edit) [25 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to The Offices) Tag: New redirect
- 12:12, 29 May 2024 The Offices (hist | edit) [1,106 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Offices''' is a co-working space located at 4439 5th Avenue South on the corner of 45th Street South in Avonwood, between Avondale, Crestwood and Woodlawn. The project was developed by architects Phil Amthor and Jeremy Erdreich. The modern-style shed-roofed building houses 11 private offices, plus a large lounge area, a conference room, and a printing / copying room. There is onsite parking, as well as restrooms and a garden shaded...")
- 11:41, 29 May 2024 Fourth Avenue Baptist Church (Wahouma) (hist | edit) [839 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Fourth Avenue Baptist Church''' was a Southern Baptist congregation located at 7220 Fourth Avenue North in Wahouma. Its first building was erected on this site in 1952. Its later modernist church building was begun in 1961 and designed by Christian and Blake. After the church closed, the building became the home of East Lake Full Gospel Baptist Church. {{stub}} ==Pastors== * Knox Johnson, 1961 ==References== * [https://cdm16044.contentd...")
- 11:03, 29 May 2024 Frida's Garden Club (hist | edit) [636 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Frida's Garden Club''' is a planned restaurant and bar to be located in the former Plant Odyssey building at 2912 6th Avenue South in Birmingham's Lakeview District. The building's iconic rock-clad gabled façade was removed as part of the renovations, designed by Pfeffer Torode Architects {{stub}} ==References== * Davis, Jordyn (May 28, 2024) "Former Carrigan’s Beer Garden space demolished; NEW Frida’s Garden Club coming soon." {{BNow}} C...")
- 06:57, 29 May 2024 Beeson Divinity School Chapel (hist | edit) [26 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Hodges Chapel) Tag: New redirect
- 17:04, 28 May 2024 The Kenzie Apartments (hist | edit) [24 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to The Kenzie) Tag: New redirect
- 17:04, 28 May 2024 The Kenzie Apartment Homes (hist | edit) [24 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to The Kenzie) Tag: New redirect
- 16:28, 28 May 2024 Coca-Cola United corporate headquarters (hist | edit) [2,879 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Coca-Cola United corporate headquarters''' is a planned $338 million corporate campus for Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United under development on the 106-acre former site of Stockham Valves & Fittings in Birmingham's Kingston neighborhood. The company acquired the property in 2013 for future expansion. It filed a voluntary clean-up plan with the Alabama Brownfield Program in 2023, and on-site work began in early 2024. At that time, no s...")
- 13:26, 28 May 2024 St John the Baptist Catholic Church (hist | edit) [1,921 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''St John the Baptist Catholic Church''' was a Catholic church in the Diocese of Birmingham first located at in East Lake at the corner of 12th Avenue North and 81st Street North. 7921 1st Avenue North in the Roebuck-South East Lake community. The site was donated by Bishop Edward P. Allen in 1922 and the the $10,000-church was dedicated by him on May 6, 1923. After that site was acquired in 1930 by the City of Birmingham for the...")
- 12:43, 28 May 2024 Fred S. (mural) (hist | edit) [1,343 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Fred S.''' is a 13-foot tall by 66-foot wide interior mural by Brooklyn, New York artist Rico Gatson on the wall of Concourse B at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. An initial version of the mural was installed in the lobby of the Birmingham Museum of Art as part of its "Wall to Wall" series, sponsored by PNC Bank. The public was invited to help complete the mural during an "Art on the Rocks" event on August 5, 2023, and the work rem...")
- 13:53, 27 May 2024 Tuxedo (disambiguation) (hist | edit) [1,862 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Tuxedo''' can refer to a number of things related to the neighborhood in Ensley which was itself named for the Tuxedo Park resort and country club in New York. That club took its name from an indigenous Algonquian term, probably "p'tuck-sepo", meaning "crooked river." The club's name became associated with a tailless dinner jacket first popularized there in the 1880s. * Tuxedo Park subdivision, a district of workers houses built before 1899 by the Tenne...")
- 11:01, 27 May 2024 Still Life with Male Figure (hist | edit) [2,754 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "right|thumb|"Still Life with Male Figure" '''"Still Life with Male Figure"''' is the descriptive title of a 17th century Dutch oil painting held and exhibited at the Birmingham Museum of Art. The 35 7/8" tall by 31 5/8" wide canvas is signed by Juriaen van Streek (1632–1687), an Amsterdam innkeeper and well-regarded painter of still lifes. The painting depicts a young Black man dressed in rich blue and gold fabrics standing...")
- 09:58, 27 May 2024 Margaret Livingston (hist | edit) [2,756 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Margaret Gresham Livingston''' (born August 16, 1924 in Birmingham; died May 20, 2024) was a life-long supporter and leader of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Margaret was the daughter of Owen and Katherine Morrow Gresham. She attended the Baldwin School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and earned a bachelor of arts at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York; and a master of science in mathematics at...")
- 10:11, 26 May 2024 Lou Scripa Jr (hist | edit) [3,130 bytes] Dystopos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Louis Scripa Jr''' (born '''Louis Sghirripa Jr''' December 1934 in Schenectady, New York) is a retired U.S. Air Force veteran and Aerojet manager known for setting several physical endurance records for charitable causes. Scripa grew up working at his family's restaurant in Schenectady. He was a star athlete in high school, and turned down a football scholarship to the University of Oklahoma in order to enlist in the Air Force. He was trained as a rescue and reco...")
- 06:06, 26 May 2024 St James Baptist Church East Lake (hist | edit) [937 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''This entry is on the church located on Oporto Avenue in Brown Springs. For other churches of similar name see St James Baptist Church.'' '''St James Baptist Church East Lake''' is located in the Brown Springs neighborhood of East Lake at 7309 Oporto Avenue. The congrgation was organized in 1890, erected a new building in 1927 and a new and larger building in 1964. {{stub}} ==Pastors== * F. H. Hall, 1927 * S. B. B...")
- 05:57, 26 May 2024 St James Baptist Church (Brown Springs) (hist | edit) [46 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to St James Baptist Church East Lake) Tag: New redirect
- 05:20, 26 May 2024 Mt Zion Negro Baptist Church (hist | edit) [59 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Zion City) Tag: New redirect
- 05:18, 26 May 2024 Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church Zion City (hist | edit) [59 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Zion City) Tag: New redirect
- 05:16, 26 May 2024 Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church Zion City (hist | edit) [59 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Zion City) Tag: New redirect
- 18:46, 25 May 2024 Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Zion City (hist | edit) [1,020 bytes] David Bains (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Zion City''' also known as '''Mt Zion Baptist Church of Zion City''' is a congregation which traces its origin to 1869 when Ruhama Baptist Church created a separate congregation for the formerly its formerly enslaved members. At that time the church was named '''Mt Zion Negro Baptist Church'''. In 2008, the church relocated from Zion City to the former Roebuck Drive United Methodist Church building at 221 Roe...")