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** 1817: [[Import Maintenance Service]]
** 1817: [[Import Maintenance Service]]
** 1826: [[HABD Building]], [[Housing Authority of the Birmingham District]] offices, former location of [[Wood Chevrolet]] (1976)
** 1826: [[HABD Building]], [[Housing Authority of the Birmingham District]] offices, former location of [[Wood Chevrolet]] (1976)
* [[19th Street South]] intersection
* [[19th Street South]] intersection
** [[Holy Trinity Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral]]
** [[Holy Trinity Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral]]
** former location of [[Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church]] (1899)
** 1900: proposed [[Hilton Garden Inn Birmingham]]
** 1900: proposed [[Hilton Garden Inn Birmingham]]
** 1912: [[Carlstedt Company]]
** 1912: [[Carlstedt Company]], former location of Mrs [[P. E. Porter]] boarding house (1899)
** [[20 Midtown]], former location of [[Adamson Ford]] auto lot, [[Firestone Building]]
** [[20 Midtown]], former location of [[Adamson Ford]] auto lot, [[Firestone Building]]
* [[20th Street South]] intersection
* [[20th Street South]] intersection
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** 2001: [[Liberty National Building]]
** 2001: [[Liberty National Building]]
** 2008: [[Baxley Dillard Dauphin]]
** 2008: [[Baxley Dillard Dauphin]]
** 2011: former location of [[National Welding Company]] (1923)
** 2011: former location of [[Noah's Ark Baptist Church]] (1899), [[National Welding Company]] (1923)
** 2018: [[Out of Town Parts]], former location of [[McElroy Motors]]
** 2018: [[Out of Town Parts]], former location of [[McElroy Motors]]
** 2019: former location of [[Scott Sheet Metal Works]] auto body repairs (1923)
** 2019: former location of [[Scott Sheet Metal Works]] auto body repairs (1923)
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** former location of [[Jim Burke Nash]] (1948)
** former location of [[Jim Burke Nash]] (1948)
** 2201: former location of [[Houppert & Worcester]] bottling works (1904)
** 2201: former location of [[Houppert & Worcester]] bottling works (1904)
** 2205: [[Sweet Tea Restaurant]]
** 2205: [[Sweet Tea Restaurant]], former location of [[Birmingham Steam Bottling Works]] storeroom (1899)
** 2212: [[Bennette's BMW Service]]
** 2212: [[Bennette's BMW Service]]
** 2216: former location of [[Antioch Baptist Church]] (1899)
** 2217: former location of Mrs [[M. McColgan]] boarding house (1899)
** 2220: [[Bennette's Motor World]]
** 2220: [[Bennette's Motor World]]
** 2221: [[Sherrill Auto Paint and Body]]
** 2221: [[Sherrill Auto Paint and Body]]
* [[23rd Street South]] intersection
* [[23rd Street South]] intersection
** [[The Downtown Church]]
** [[The Downtown Church]]
** 2300: former location of [[W. M. Brown]] saloon (1904)
** 2300: former location of [[P. Lombard]] grocer (1899), [[W. M. Brown]] saloon (1904)
** 2301: former location of [[T. H. Bower]] saloon (1904)
** 2301: former location of [[T. H. Bower]] saloon (1899-1904)
** 2303: former location of [[Love Shields]] restaurant (1904)
** 2303: former location of [[Love Shields]] restaurant (1899-1904)
* [[24th Street South]] intersection
* [[24th Street South]] intersection
** 2400: [[All About Trucks]]
** 2400: [[All About Trucks]]
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** 2417: [[Grump's Great Grill]]
** 2417: [[Grump's Great Grill]]
* [[25th Street South]] intersection (access to [[Elton B. Stephens Expressway]] South)
* [[25th Street South]] intersection (access to [[Elton B. Stephens Expressway]] South)
** 2500: former location of Mrs [[J. F. Chitwood]] boarding house (1899)
** 2501: [[Southern Wholesale Automobiles]]
** 2501: [[Southern Wholesale Automobiles]]
** 2514: [[MG Electronics & Equipment]]
** 2514: [[MG Electronics & Equipment]]

Revision as of 19:22, 10 March 2019

3rd Avenue South (originally Avenue C) is an east-west avenue in Birmingham. It continues U. S. Highway 78 westbound from Crestwood Boulevard (via an angled section of 5th Avenue South) through Avondale and into the City Center. Beginning at 36th Street the avenue is one-way westbound with three lanes of traffic.

US 78 turns north off of 3rd Avenue at 24th Street, continuing west along 8th Avenue North toward Arkadelphia Road. 3rd Avenue South proceeds through Midtown Birmingham, becoming an onramp to I-65 North after it crosses 12th Street South.

The avenue picks up again in Titusville as 3rd Avenue Southwest, a two-lane residential street running between Omega Street and Martin Luther King, Jr Drive at Elmwood Cemetery.

In Woodlawn and East Lake additional sections of 3rd Avenue South can be found. One runs for less than a block off of 59th Street South south of Georgia Road. Another picks up at 61st Street South and runs into the I-20 right of way just past 64th Street South. It picks up at 64th Place South on the other side of the interstate and continues to 67th Street South, where it ends in the turn a block shy of the Cascade Plunge. On the other side of the proposed Druid Hollow Park 3rd Avenue continues as a residential street between 70th Street South and 86th Street South. The alley between 2nd and 3rd Avenue in this area is promoted as a Musician's Hollow by the East Lake Arts District.

MAX Transit Route 17 runs along parts of 3rd Avenue South in Avondale.

History

3rd Avenue South was converted from two-way to one-way (westbound) traffic from 32nd Street to 14th Street in August 1955. The west-only traffic pattern was extended to I-65 in 1973 by the Alabama Department of Transportation's TOPICS (Traffic Operations Program to Increase Capacity and Safety) program.

Notable locations

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 3rd Avenue South category.

Five Points South neighborhood

Southside neighborhood

Forest Park-South Avondale

Forest Park/East Avondale

East Avondale

South Woodlawn

South East Lake

Locations on 3rd Avenue Southwest

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