13th Avenue South

13th Avenue South is a street in Birmingham's Southside and Crestwood communities.

14th Avenue South begins at 13th Place South behind the UAB Center for Exercise Medicine and continues east to Phelan Park. It turns to form the north edge of the park and continues past 15th Street South where it forms the spine of the former "Nabob Hill" residential district. It continues along the front of Ramsay High School and on past 20th Street South to Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard South. The portion entering the former town of Highlands was formerly called Simmons Avenue.

Additional segments of 13th Avenue South appear between 28th and 31st Street South in Highland Park, and as a dead-end street off of Clairmont Avenue South / 12th Avenue South in Crestwood South.

Parts of 13th Avenue South are within the Phelan Park Historic District and the Five Points South Historic District.

Notable addresses

Dates in parentheses indicate when the address was known to have been used, not necessarily the entire span of its use.

Five Points South neighborhood

• avenue begins at 13th Place South
  • north side:
    • 1408: former location of Wesley Foundation at UAB (closed 2024)

• 14th Street South intersects
  • north side:
    • 1422: former location of Contemporary South Dance Company (2013–2018)
    • 1434 ( 15th Street South): Lofts on 15th (built 2016)
  • south side:
    • Phelan Park (dedicated 1907)

• 15th Street South intersects

• 16th Street South intersects
  • north side:
    • 1608: Amsource, former location of Bhate Geosciences
  • south side:
    • 1607–1609: Continental Apartments (built 1962)
    • 1613: Fox Hall Apartments
    • 1629: former location of Thomas & Ida Williams residence (1915)

• 17th Street South intersects
  • north side:
    • 1800: Ramsay High School (built 1930)
  • south side:
    • 1715: Tom & Susie Ashford residence (built 1885)
    • 1749–1761: rowhouse apartments (built 1908)

• 18th Street South intersects (south only)
  • south side:
    • 1821 (1320 19th Street South): Birmingham Police Department South Precinct

• 19th Street South intersects
  • north side:
    • 1914: office building
  • south side:
    • 1901 (1301 19th Street South): Cobb Lane Corners apartments

• 20th Alley South (north) / Cobb Lane (south) intersect
  • north side:
    • 1920 (1200-1224 20th Street South): Highland Point Plaza (built 1956)
  • south side:
    • 1921 (1300 20th Street South): Park Manor Flats (built 1922 as Dian Apartments)

• 20th Street South intersects
  • north side:
    • 2000 (1225 20th Street South): Ranelli's Deli (1971–), former location of Five Points Standard Station (1964)
    • 2020–2040 (2035 Highland Avenue South]]: South Highland Presbyterian Church
      • 2036: former location of Hannah Elliott residence and studio
  • south side:
    • 2023: former location of Jefferson Alcoholic Foundation (–2024)

• avenue ends at Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard South (formerly 21st Street South)

Highland Park neighborhood

• avenue begins at 28th Street South

• 29th Street South intersects

• 30th Street South intersects
  • north side:
    • 3000–3008: Avalon Condominiums (built 1926)

• avenue ends at 31st Street South

Crestwood South

• avenue begins at Clairmont Avenue South / 12th Avenue South
  • 5541: Magic City Home Improvement