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'''11th Avenue North''' (or '''Eleventh Avenue North''', formerly just '''11th Avenue''') is an [[east-west avenue|east-west street]] running through [[Smithfield]] and north of downtown [[Birmingham]] and continuing in sections through the east side of the city.
'''11th Avenue North''' (or '''Eleventh Avenue North''', formerly just '''11th Avenue''') is an [[east-west avenue|east-west street]] running through [[Smithfield]] and north of downtown [[Birmingham]] and continuing in sections through the east side of the city.


11th Avenue North begins at [[Center Street North|Center Street]] in [[College Hills]] and runs eastward, crossing into [[Smithfield neighborhood|Smithfield]] at [[1st Street North]] and then running behind [[Parker High School]] where it is interrupted at [[5th Street North]] and the [[I-65]] corridor. Four more blocks of 10th Avenue North run through [[Fountain Heights]], tucked into the curve of the I-65 North to {{I-59/20}} West ramp at [[Malfunction Junction]].
11th Avenue North begins between [[Center Street North|Center Street]] and [[1st Street North]] in [[College Hills]] and runs eastward for just over two blocks, terminating at [[3rd Street North]] near [[Malfunction Junction]] and [[Knesseth Israel and Beth-El Cemetery]]. The street resumes at [[13th Street North]] as a continuation of [[11th Terrace North]] and proceeds eastward past [[Oak Hill Cemetery]] and the [[Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex]], terminating at [[29th Place North]] where {{I-59/20}} interrupts.


10th Avenue North resumes at [[16th Street North]], north of I-59/20 and continues eastward to [[19th Street North]], where it is interrupted by the [[Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex]] in the [[Druid Hills]] neighborhood. East of the BJCC, the street continues as [[Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North]], under the I-59/20 interchange with the [[Elton B. Stephens Expressway]]. It continues through the [[Norwood]], [[East Birmingham neighborhood|East Birmingham]] and [[Kingston]] neighborhoods, then crossing into [[Woodlawn neighborhood|Woodlawn]] at [[47th Street North]].
11th Avenue North picks up again for a short section in [[Norwood]] between [[32nd Street North]] and [[Vanderbilt Road]], then again as a continuation of [[35th Place North]] to [[37th Place North]], and again between [[39th Street North]] and [[40th Street North]]. The avenue picks up at [[42nd Street North]] and bends around to [[Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North]]. Another segment picks up at [[44th Street North]] and proceeds to [[47th Street North]]. Another small strip of 11th Avenue connects [[47th Place North]] to [[48th Street North]].


After crossing [[Messer Airport Highway]], Richard Arrington Boulevard bends northward, passing below [[I-20]] behind [[Woodlawn High School]] and continues from there as [[3rd Avenue North]].
Northeast of [[Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport]] another section of 11th Avenue North runs between [[90th Street North]] and [[93rd Street North]], and then north another block to [[Tarrant Huffman Road]] in [[Brownsville Heights]].
 
A fragment of 10th Avenue North connects to [[86th Street North]] in [[Zion City]], north of the [[Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport]].




==Notable locations==
==Notable locations==
===[[College Hills]] neighborhood===
===[[East Thomas]] neighborhood===
* [[Center Street North]] intersects (continues west as [[10th Avenue West]])
 
 
===[[Smithfield neighborhood]]===
* [[1st Street North]] intersects
* [[1st Street North]] intersects
* [[2nd Street North]] intersects
* [[2nd Street North]] intersects
* [[3rd Street North]] intersects
* avenue ends at [[3rd Street North]]
* [[5th Street North]] intersects
** 408: former location of [[Miller Memorial Presbyterian Church]] (1948)
** 810: former location of [[Miller Memorial Presbyterian Church]] (1927)
** 1031: former location of [[Grapico|Grapico Company of America]] (1940-), demolished for [[Malfunction Junction]]


===[[Fountain Heights]] neighborhood===
===[[Fountain Heights]] neighborhood===
* [[I-65]] interrupts
* [[11th Place North]] intersects
* [[12th Street North]] intersects
* [[Short 12th Street North]] intersects
* [[13th Street North]] intersects
* [[13th Street North]] intersects
* [[13th Place North]] intersects
* [[14th Street North]] intersects
* {{I-59/20}} interrupts
** 14-unit apartment building (built 1956)
* [[15th Street North]] intersects
** former location of [[Gammill Drug Company]]
** 1512: [[CDM Apartment Complex]]
* [[16th Street North]] intersects
* [[16th Street North]] intersects
** former location of [[Zipin's Grocery]] (1920s)
** 1608: former location of [[Holiday Inn]] (1958)
* [[17th Street North]] intersects
* [[17th Street North]] intersects
** 1701: former location of [[Towles]] cleaning & dyeing (1935)
** north side:
*** [[Oak Hill Cemetery]] (dedicated 1873)
** south side:
*** [[FBI Birmingham Field Office Building]] (built 2005)
* [[18th Street North]] intersects
* [[18th Street North]] intersects
* [[19th Street North]] (street ends)
** former location of [[J. N. Scott & Co.]] private infirmary (1896)
** 1801: [[Kelly Ingram Post No. 668]]
** 1821: [[9th Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church]]


===[[Druid Hills]] neighborhood===
===[[Druid Hills]] neighborhood===
* [[Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex]] (built 1975)
* [[19th Street North]]
* [[21st Street North]] intersects (as Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North, continuing south)
** 1900: [[Patriot Center]] (built 1974 as the [[Patriot Center|Social Security Administration Southeast Program Service Center]])
** 1901: [[Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex]] (built 1975)
(1962-)
** 1914: former location of [[El Morocco Club]] / [[Northside Club]] ([[E. N. Rutherford]] 1958-1960), [[Diamond Jim's Steak Bar]] (1961-1962)
* [[21st Street North]] intersects (north only)
** 2100: [[Salvation Army Birmingham Area Command]]
* [[22nd Street North]] intersects
* [[22nd Street North]] intersects
** right-of-way vacated in 2018 for [[BJCC Stadium]]
** former location of [[BJCC Parking Lot P-7]]
** former [[23rd Street North]] intersection
** former location of[[BJCC Parking Lot P-10]]
*** 2300: former location of [[Mary's Place]] ([[Mary Damico]] 1960)
*** 2301: former location of [[Northside Elementary School]] (1964)
*** former location of [[Brown-Service Funeral Home Norwood]]
* [[24th Street North]] intersects
* [[24th Street North]] intersects
** former location of {{I-59/20}} [[Exit 126A]] (closed 2017)
** [[TopGolf]] (built 2017), former location of [[BJCC Parking Lot P-11]] (-2017)
** 2430: former location of [[United Cerebral Palsy Center]], [[Augmentative Communication Service]]
* [[25th Street North]] intersects
* [[25th Street North]] intersects
* [[Carraway Boulevard]] intersects


===[[Central City neighborhood]]===
===[[Norwood neighborhood]]===
* [[27th Street North]] intersects
* [[26th Street North]]/[[Carraway Boulevard]] intersects
 
** former location of [[Burks Pan-Am Service Station]] (built 1951, demolished for Red Mountain Expressway)
===[[Norwood]] neighborhood===
** former location of [[Dolly Madison bakery]], [[Pizitz]] corporate offices, [[Parisian]] warehouse
* Railroad crossing
* [[27th Street North]] intersects (north only)
* [[27th Place North]] intersects (north only)
* [[28th Street North]] intersects
* [[28th Street North]] intersects
* [[29th Street North]] intersects
* [[28th Place North]] intersects (north only)
* [[30th Street North]] intersects
** [[Sheet Metal Workers International Association]]
* [[31st Street North]] intersects
* [[29th Street North]] intersects (north only)
* [[32nd Street North]] intersects
* [[29th Place North]] intersects (north only), avenue ends
* [[32nd Street North]] intersects (south only), avenue resumes
** 3211: [[Blue Torch Fab Works]]
** 3232: [[Stone Building Co.]], former location of [[Merchandise Vending]]
* [[33rd Street North]] intersects
* [[33rd Street North]] intersects
** 3300: [[Hinkle Metals & Supply]]
* [[34th Street North]] intersects
* [[34th Street North]] intersects
* [[33rd Street North]] intersects
* [[34th Street North]] intersects
** 3403: [[Fast Religion]] racing
** [[Applied Industrial Technologies]]
* [[35th Street North]] intersects
** 3513: [[Clow-Rodgers Inc.]]
* [[Vanderbilt Road]] intersects, avenue ends


===[[East Birmingham neighborhood]]===
===[[East Birmingham neighborhood]]===
* [[35th Street North]]/[[Vanderbilt Road]] intersects
* [[35th Place North]] intersects (south only), avenue resumes
* [[36th Way North]] intersects (south only)
* [[37th Street North]] intersects
* [[37th Street North]] intersects
* [[37th Place North]] intersects
* [[37th Place North]] intersects, avenue ends
* [[38th Street North]] intersects
* [[39th Street North]] intersects, avenue resumes
* [[39th Street North]] intersects
** 3901: [[Commercial Industrial Tire Co.]]
* [[Appalachee Street]] intersects
* [[Appalachee Street]] intersects
* [[Coosa Street]] intersects
* [[Coosa Street]] intersects
* [[Cahaba Street]] intersects (north only)
* [[Cahaba Street]] intersects
* [[Escambia Street]] intersects (north only)
* [[40th Street North]] intersects
* [[40th Street North]] intersects


===[[Kingston]] neighborhood===
===[[Kingston]] neighborhood===
* [[40th Street North]] intersects
* [[42nd Street North]] intersects (south only), avenue resumes
* [[41st Street North]] intersects (south only)
** 4306 former location of [[East Birmingham Assembly of God]] (1954, 1964)
* [[42nd Street North]] intersects
* [[Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North]] ([[10th Avenue North]]) intersects, avenue ends
* [[42nd Place North]] intersects
* [[44th Street North]] intersects (north only), avenue resumes
* [[43rd Street North]] intersects
* [[11th Court North]] (north) / [[44th Place North]] (south) intersects
* [[44th Street North]] intersects
* [[44th Place North]] intersects (north only)
* [[44th Place North]] intersects
* [[45th Street North]] intersects
* [[45th Street North]] intersects
* [[46th Street North]] intersects
* [[46th Street North]] intersects
* [[47th Street North]] intersects, avenue ends


===[[Woodlawn neighborhood]]===
===[[Woodlawn neighborhood]]===
* [[47th Street North]] intersection
* [[47th Place North]] intersects (south only), avenue resumes
* [[48th Street North]] intersection
* [[48th Street North]] intersects, avenue ends
* [[50th Street North]] intersection
* 5400 block: former location of [[Jefferson County Alms House]]
* [[Messer Airport Highway]] intersection
 
* [[3rd Avenue North]] intersects (continuing north)
===[[Brownsville Heights]] neighborhood===
* [[54th Street North]] intersects (south only)
* [[90th Street North]] intersects, avenue resumes
* street terminates into [[55th Street North]]
* [[91st Street North]] intersects (east only)
* [[93rd Street North]] intersects
* [[Tarrant Huffman Road]] intersects, avenue ends


===[[Zion City]] neighborhood===
==References==
* [[86th Avenue North]] intersects
* Edgemon, Erin (August 28, 2018) "Portion of 2 downtown Birmingham streets to close for stadium." {{BN}}


[[Category:11th Avenue North|*]]
[[Category:11th Avenue North|*]]

Latest revision as of 13:35, 30 April 2024

11th Avenue North (or Eleventh Avenue North, formerly just 11th Avenue) is an east-west street running through Smithfield and north of downtown Birmingham and continuing in sections through the east side of the city.

11th Avenue North begins between Center Street and 1st Street North in College Hills and runs eastward for just over two blocks, terminating at 3rd Street North near Malfunction Junction and Knesseth Israel and Beth-El Cemetery. The street resumes at 13th Street North as a continuation of 11th Terrace North and proceeds eastward past Oak Hill Cemetery and the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex, terminating at 29th Place North where I-59/20 interrupts.

11th Avenue North picks up again for a short section in Norwood between 32nd Street North and Vanderbilt Road, then again as a continuation of 35th Place North to 37th Place North, and again between 39th Street North and 40th Street North. The avenue picks up at 42nd Street North and bends around to Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North. Another segment picks up at 44th Street North and proceeds to 47th Street North. Another small strip of 11th Avenue connects 47th Place North to 48th Street North.

Northeast of Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport another section of 11th Avenue North runs between 90th Street North and 93rd Street North, and then north another block to Tarrant Huffman Road in Brownsville Heights.


Notable locations

East Thomas neighborhood

Fountain Heights neighborhood

Druid Hills neighborhood

(1962-)

Norwood neighborhood

East Birmingham neighborhood

Kingston neighborhood

Woodlawn neighborhood

Brownsville Heights neighborhood

References

  • Edgemon, Erin (August 28, 2018) "Portion of 2 downtown Birmingham streets to close for stadium." The Birmingham News
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