55th Place South
55th Place South (or South 55th Place) is a small street in Birmingham's Woodlawn and Crestwood North neighborhoods.
It runs through the heart of Woodlawn's commercial district from 1st Avenue North to 1st Avenue South, then jogs to the west and continues over the Alabama Great Southern Railroad South District and Norfolk-Southern Railroad East End District railroad tracks into Woodlawn Heights (Crestwood North) at 5th Avenue South. From there the street continues as 56th Street South, but another section of 55th Place South picks up a little further west and runs south past the Crest Parc subdivision on the former site of the Woodlawn Infirmary. It turns sharply west just north of the Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad track and runs into 6th Avenue South.
Notable addresses
- 1st Avenue North intersection (street continues as 55th Place North)
- east side:
- 4: Audiostate 55 recording studio, formerly Front Row Productions / Vent Records
- 6: commercial building (built 1901), Earth Libraries record label, former location of Studio 6 recording studio (1987-2000), Planet Model & Talent Management (1990s), Red Models
- 8: public parking lot, former location of Peacock Drive-In
- west side:
- 1-5: One 55th Place building, REV Birmingham Woodlawn office, Woodlawn United offices, former location of Old American Life insurance company, Main Street Birmingham
- 7-21 55th Place Arts business incubator (2011-)
- Breakin' Bread Records
- 7: Slutty Vegan restaurant (August 2022–), former location of It's Linda's Beauty Salon
- 11: MoHair Designs
- 15: Communicating Vessels, former location of May-Ree Beauty Salon (1971)
- 17: Club Duquette (opened September 2016), former location of Salon 728
- 21: former location of City Arts Boutique (2011-)
- east side:
- 1st Avenue South intersection
- east side:
- west side:
- corner: SocialVenture non-profit incubator
- Alabama Great Southern Railroad South District grade crossing
- Norfolk-Southern Railroad East End District grade crossing
- 5th Avenue South intersection (street continues as 56th Street South)
- east side:
- Crest Parc subdivision (former location of Woodlawn Infirmary)