10th Avenue South
Tenth Avenue South (originally Avenue J) is an east-west corridor in Birmingham's Southside, with its main section stretching from 4th Street South in Glen Iris, through the UAB Campus, to 22nd Street South at the corner of Brother Bryan Park. It picks up again a block east as a continuation of Magnolia Avenue. It runs under the Elton B. Stephens Expressway and behind St Vincent's Medical Center, then continues two blocks to 30th Street South (a stretch formerly called Juniper Avenue).
On the east side of Highland Park, 10th Avenue South (formerly Summit Avenue) continues through Forest Park until it bends into Linwood Road. An unconnected stretch picks up at 52nd Street South in Crestwood, and turns to intersect Crestwood Boulevard between 57th and 58th Streets. In East Lake fragments of 10th Avenue South can be found between 79th Street South and Glendale Drive, near the boundary of the Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve.
10th Avenue South between 19th and 21st Street forms the original northern boundary of the Five Points South Historic District. Between Higland Park and Linwood Road, the avenue is within the Forest Park Historic District.
The section of 10th Avenue South between 20th and 34th Streets suffered damage from the March 25, 1901 Birmingham tornado
Notable locations
- For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 10th Avenue South category.
- 800: Gable Square (Gable Squere Amoco)
- 1000: proposed site of Gables at Glen Iris/ unfinished site of University Flats
- 1001: Epic School
- 1190: Spencer Honors House (formerly Second Presbyterian Church)
- 1200: Alys Stephens Center
- 1231: Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts
- 1300: Mervyn H. Sterne Library
- 1321: Snoozy's College Bookstore
- 1400: UAB Campus Green
- 1401: Blount Hall
- 1500: Camp Hall
- 1629: Al’s Deli and Grill
- 1701: New Woman All Women Health Care (site of the 1998 abortion clinic bombing)
- 1705: Textsmart book store
- 1717: The Purple Onion
- 1730: Paul S. Worrell Building
- 1800: University Place Apartments (formerly the Guest House Motor Inn & University Inn)
- 1831: Alabama Opthalmology Associates
- 1900: 10th Avenue Parking Deck
- 1901: United Steelworkers Local 12030, Stage Employees
- 1911: Five Points South YMCA
- 1920: Nineteen Twenty Club
- 1930: Makarios
- 1931: Five Points Paint & Hardware
- 2000: Exchange Security Bank of Birmingham
- 2021: Building Trades Tower
- 2100: Brother Bryan Park (formerly Magnolia Park)
- 2124: Parrish & Theus
- 2300: Southtown Court
- 2420: former location of Jones Valley Urban Farm
- 2514: The Nick (formerly the The Wooden Nickel and The Draughting Board)
- 2600-2730: St Vincent's Medical Center
- 2601: Underwood Park
- 2915: Leon Friedman residence
- 3832: Samuel Barnett residence
- 3911: South Highland Presbyterian manse