1st Avenue North (Downtown): Difference between revisions

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==== [[22nd Street North|22nd Street]] intersection====
==== [[22nd Street North|22nd Street]] intersection====
* North side:
* North side:
** 2200: [[Goodall-Brown building]] (built 1905) for the [[Goodall-Brown Dry Goods Co.]]), [[Goodall-Brown Lofts]], former site of the [[Caldwell Hotel]] (1889-1894)
** 2200-2206: [[Goodall-Brown building]] (built 1905) for the [[Goodall-Brown Dry Goods Co.]]), [[Goodall-Brown Lofts]], former site of the [[Caldwell Hotel]] (1889-1894)
*** 2200: [[Wine Loft]]
*** 2200: [[The Wine Loft]]
** 2208-2210: former location of [[R. D. Burnett Cigar Company]] warehouse
** 2208-2210: former location of [[R. D. Burnett Cigar Company]] warehouse
*** 2210: [[The Parthenon]] event center, former location of [[American Legion General Gorgas Post No. 1]] (1996)
** 2212: former location of [[Bradford-Norton Co.]] (1926)
** 2212: former location of [[Bradford-Norton Co.]] (1926)
** 2214: former location of [[Jaffe Clothing Co.]] (1926)
** 2214: former location of [[Jaffe Clothing Co.]] (1926)
** 2216-2218: former location of [[Todd-Witte Dry Goods Co.]] (1925-1926)
** 2216-2218: [[Todd-Witte Building]], former location of [[Todd-Witte Dry Goods Co.]] (1925-1926), [[Lindsey Office Furnishings]] (2007-2017)
** 2220: former location of [[Heflin's Sanitarium]] (1904)
** 2220-2222: former location of [[Heflin's Sanitarium]] (1904), [[Data Processing Security Inc.]] (2008-2015)
** 2226: former location of [[Europa]]
** 2224-2226: [[Heninger Garrison Davis]] attorneys (2006-)
** 2230: former location of [[Standard Oil]] gas station (1926)
*** 2226: former location of [[Europa]]
** 2228-2230: [[Patrick B. Odum Family Dentistry]] (2007-), former location of [[Standard Oil]] gas station (1926)
* South side:
* South side:
** 2201-2203: [[Transportation Building]] (built 1925 as the [[Southern Railway Building]])
** 2201-2203: [[Transportation Building]] (built 1925 as the [[Southern Railway Building]])

Revision as of 16:24, 23 April 2019

1st Avenue North (Downtown) is the section of 1st Avenue North running through downtown Birmingham's Fountain Heights and Central City neighborhoods, between 13th and 26th Streets. The street is also part of U.S. Highway 11.

In the downtown area, 1st Avenue North has a 100-foot right of way, 20 feet wider than the typical street. It carries two lanes of traffic in each direction with a central turn lane and parallel parking at each curb.


Locations

1st Avenue North continues west through Smithfield to Center Street, continuing as Cotton Avenue Southwest

Fountain Heights

11th Street intersection

12th Street intersection

13th Street intersection

14th Street intersection

15th Street intersection (closed)

16th Street intersection

17th Street intersection

18th Street intersection

The Pandora Cafeteria at 1804-1806 1st Avenue North (1927-1936)

Central City neighborhood

19th Street intersection

1890s view looking east down 1st Avenue, possibly from the Morris Block.

20th Street intersection: Heaviest Corner on Earth

21st Street intersection (Rainbow Viaduct)

22nd Street intersection

23rd Street intersection

24th Street intersection

25th Street intersection