19th Street Ensley

19th Street looking south from Avenue F in 1927

19th Street Ensley is a street in the Ensley business district. It begins at Avenue B just southeast of U. S. Steel's former Ensley Works and proceeds southeast to Avenue I, then bends to the east and continues to Avenue W just west of I-20/59. The street continues toward downtown Birmingham via Bush Hills as Bush Boulevard/8th Avenue North.

Notable addresses

• former location of TCI Commissary (Ensley).
• 101: former location of Plant Cafe (Pete Harduval 1960)
• 103: former location of Harduvel Bros. restaurant (1910)
• 108: former location of Riverside Cafe (1910)
• former location of Ensley Land Co. (1903)

• Avenue C Ensley intersects
  • northwest side
    • 300: former location of the New York Store clothiers (1903)
    • 302: former location of H. Kanjutzky dry goods (1903)
    • 304: former location of Cadenhead & Tyler pawn shop (1903), Ensley Furniture and Printing Co. (1934)
      • 304½: former location of Mrs H. G. Williamson dressmaker (1903)
    • 306: former location of Goldstein & Berkowitz dry goods (1903)
    • 308: Wallace Lounge
    • 324: former location of New Orleans Cafe (1938-1939)
  • southeast side:
    • 301: former location of C. S. Williams pawn shop (1903)
    • 303: former location of Hustler Grocery Co. (1903)
    • 305: former location of Ensley Furniture Co. / Will Black's barber shop (1903)
    • 307: former location of the Boston Clothing Store (1903)
    • 315: former location of John Checkas fruit stand (1903)
    • 321: Bethesda Wellness Center (2020)

• Avenue D Ensley intersects
  • northwest side:
    • 400: Cotton's department store (1922-2012), former location of The Bee Hive dry goods & shoes (1903)
    • 402: former location of D. B. Bird grocery (1903)
    • 404: former location of John M. Martin druggist / Mrs Langford dressmaker (1903), Goldstein & Cohen dry goods & shoes (1917)
      • 404: former location of Ensley Odd Fellows' Hall (1903)
    • 406: former location of Ensley Bakery (1903)
    • 408: former location of The Model Market / J. H. Eubanks & Co. grocery & dairy / Fred Kastorff bicycle shop (1903)
    • 410: Busch's jewelers, former location of Byrum & Butcher hardware (1903)
    • 412: former location of J. S. Hall & Co. dry goods & shoes (1903)
    • 414: Ensley Grill (1930–), former location of Mrs M. L. Martin millinery (1903)
    • 416: former location of Tony Frank fruit stand (1903)
    • 418: former location of J. S. Knight insurance / E. J. Hudnall real estate / W. W. Ellis jeweler (1903), White Palace Barber Shop (1917), Gilmer Drug Co.
  • southeast side:
    • 401: vacant, former location of Nolan's Hall / Vann Bros. furniture (1903)
    • 403: vacant
    • 405: vacant, former offices of Martin Weinberg
    • 409: vacant, former location of McCrory's department store (1962–), Project Safe (Birmingham Police Department Domestic Violence Unit
    • 413: Gilmer Drugs
    • 415: former location of Ensley Co. (1903)
    • 421: former location of Lyons & Co. pool hall (1903)
    • 425: Monumental Contracting Services, formerly Bank of Ensley (1917–1929)

• Avenue E Ensley intersects:
  • former location of Fossett's Cafe (1903)
  • 506: Ellis Flower Shop (1934)
  • 508: proposed site for New Ramsay-McCormack building (2024), former location of Ensley Hotel (1887–1910s), Berney's Drug Store, Ramsay-McCormack Building (built 1929, demolished 2021)
  • 511: former location of Joe Steed's Theatres (1927)
  • 514: Outlet discount store
  • 519: Styles of Today
  • 526: former location of Mrs E. W. Johnson dressmaker (1903)
  • 528: former location of M. L. Daniel grocery (1903)

• Avenue F Ensley intersects:
  • former location of Berney's Drug Store (1898–1959)
  • former location of Alex Claiborne blacksmith shop (1903)
  • northwest side:
    • 602: The Greenhouse event venue, former location of Belle Theatre (early 1900s)
    • 604: 1-story commercial building
      • 604A: former location of Classic Tax Service
      • 604B: Kuumba Community Arts Center
    • 606: Robbins Nursing Uniform Supply Store, former location of Vivian's Flowers (Vivian &Woodie Sanford 1968–1975), Genesis Hair Salon
    • 608: Jaynee's Services tax preparation / notary, former location of Jaynee's Fashions, April's Cuts & Beyond
    • 610: Amie's African Hair Braiding
    • 616: Ensley Cinema House (2016–), former location of Birmingham Police Department West Precinct (1967-2015)
  • southwest side:
    • 601–609: vacant lot, former location of Braswell Furniture Co. (1907–1982)
      • 601–603: demolished between 2011 & 2015
      • 605–609: demolished between 2019 & 2021
    • 611: 2-story brick commercial building (built 1911), Mighty Muscle Facilities Management / Ensley Jazz House / Scarbrough Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise (Kathy Scarbrough 2022–), former location of Birmingham Railway Light & Electric Company substation, A. G. Callins & Associates (2018)
    • 615: A & B Palace (2011–)
    • 619: Jimmy Jays Delicious Barbecue (2015–), former location of A Lil of Everything and Then Some boutique (2011)

• Avenue G Ensley intersects:
  • 702: Ideal Furniture
  • 713: former location of F. M. Slye contractor (1903)
  • 717: former location of Ensley Cleaning Works (1917)
  • 721: J & D Barber Shop
  • 723-725: former location of Dabney Galusha Post 3407, Veterans of Foreign Wars (1953-1961)

• Avenue H Ensley intersects:
  • 815: Q's Bar & Grill
  • 827; Eastside Funeral Home Ensley branch, former location of Parker Funeral Home

• Avenue I Ensley intersects
  • 900: former location of Bondi & Lovoi restaurant (1928), Friendly Tavern (Don Snyder 1959)
  • 910: Mama Esha Kitchen (Ayesha Rashid 2019–)

• Avenue J Ensley intersects (south only):
  • 1412: Shee Bar hair extensions
  • 1420–1430: The Hamilton Apartments

• Avenue O Ensley intersects:
  • 1500–1530: First Baptist Church of Ensley
    • 1504: former location of Cotton's Confectionary (John Cotton 1942)
  • 1501–1515: service station
    • 1501: 19th Street Grill
  • 1517: former location of Clifton Lattimore, physician
  • 1523: Carter's Barber Shop
  • 1525–1529: former location of Quality Cleaners

• Avenue P Ensley intersects:
  • 1600–1616: Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
  • 1601–1603: 2-story commercial building
    • 1601: vacant
    • 1603: Superior Style Shop (2014–)
  • 1613: apartment building (damaged by fire in April 2020)
  • 1621: New Testament House of Refuge
  • 1915: Holy Family Community Hospital (1946–)
  • 2001: Holy Family Cristo Rey High School (1943–)

• Avenue V Ensley: Exxon
• continues as Bush Boulevard