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====[[14th Street North|14th Street]] intersection====
====[[14th Street North|14th Street]] intersection====
* North side ([[Block 94]])
* north side ([[Block 94]]):
** 1408: former location of [[C.A. Turner's Livery and Sales Stable]] Veterinary Surgeon (1887)
** 1400: former location of saloon (1891)
*** 1408-1412 former location of [[R.R. Frog & Switch]] factory (1885-)
** 1402: former location of vacant store (1891)
** 1410: former location of [[Haack & Mundes]] Pattern and Cabinet Makers (1887)
** 1404-1406: former location of street railroad company (vacated by 1891)
** 1412: former location of [[Lankford & Hale]] Blacksmiths, surveyors, contractors (1887), [[Russell Grant]] fruit dealer (1887), [[Dixie Bottling Works]] (1904)
** 1408-1412 former location of [[R.R. Frog & Switch]] factory (1885-)
*** 1408-1410: former location of vacant structure (1891)
**** 1408: former location of [[C. A. Turner]] livery & sales stables / veterinary surgeon (1887)
**** 1410: former location of [[Haack & Mundes]] pattern & cabinet makers (1887)
*** 1412: former location of [[Lankford & Hale]] blacksmiths, surveyors & contractors / [[Russell Grant]] fruit dealer (1887), vacant store (1891), [[Dixie Bottling Works]] (1904)
** 1414: former location of vacant store (1891)
** 1416-1418: former location of [[Birmingham Electric & Manufacturing Co.]] (1904)
** 1416-1418: former location of [[Birmingham Electric & Manufacturing Co.]] (1904)
** 1420-1430: former location of [[Jefferson Foundry]] (1885), [[Williamson Iron Co.]] (1904)
*** 1416: former location of vacant store (1891)
*** 1422: former location of [[Williamson Iron Co.]] / [[Hood Machine Co.]] (1896)
*** 1418: former location of vacant store (1891)
* South side ([[Block 109D]]
** 1420-1430: former location of [[Jefferson Foundry]] (1885), [[Williamson Iron Co.]] (1891-1904)
*** 1420: former location of blacksmith shop (1891)
*** 1422-1430: former location of [[Williamson Iron Co.]] machine & pattern shop (1891), [[Williamson Iron Co.]] / [[Hood Machine Co.]] (1896)
 
* south side ([[Block 109D]]:
** 1401: former location of [[Cahaba Domestic Coal & Coke Co.]] (1926-1935)
** 1401: former location of [[Cahaba Domestic Coal & Coke Co.]] (1926-1935)
** 1405: former location of [[City Lumber Co.]] (1926)
** 1405: former location of [[City Lumber Co.]] (1926)

Revision as of 08:59, 17 May 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