8th Avenue West
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8th Avenue West is an east-west street which continues Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard (8th Avenue North) from Center Street North in College Hills, westward to Bush Boulevard in Bush Hills. Another residential section picks up at 15th Street West and proceeds across the former Ensley city limit in line with Border Street, becoming 17th Street Ensley.
8th Avenue West forms the northern edge of the Graymont neighborhood and McLendon Park, home of Legion Field, and as the southern boundary of the Birmingham-Southern College campus. The section running alongside the college's original campus was called Hennington Avenue in Kelley's 1922 Map of Birmingham.
Notable addresses
- Center Street, street continues east as Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard, formerly 8th Avenue North
- 1: Smithfield Library (built 1956), ZYP bikeshare kiosk
- 1st Street West intersects
- 2nd Street West intersects (north only)
- 3rd Street West intersects (north only)
- 300: Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity, formerly Graymont Elementary School (built 1908)
- Jasper Road intersects (north only)
- 4th Street West intersects (north only)
- 5th Street West intersects (north only)
- 508-B: former location of Tired Texan Barbecue (1990s-1996)
- 535: former location of Birmingham Fire Station No. 14 (1925-2011)
- 5th Place West intersects (north only)
- 6th Street West intersects (north only)
- 7th Avenue West intersects (south only)
- 615: BluOnyx Nightlife Lounge, former location of Onyx Lounge (2007-)
- 645: former location of College Barber Shop (1960-1962)
- 700: McCoy Center for Community Services (College Hills EcoScape, Scrollworks), formerly McCoy United Methodist Church (1901-1993)
- 729: former location of College Hills Cleaners (1939-1962)
- 735: former location of College Hills Food Center (1960-1961)
- 737: former location of College Hills Rexall drug store (1960-1962)
- Arkadelphia Road intersects
- Birmingham-Southern College
- 801: former location of Burger In A Hurry (1970s)
- 835: former location of the College Barber Shop (1939)
- 9th Street West intersects (north only)
- 10th Street West intersects (north only)
- 11th Street West intersects (north only)
- 12th Street West intersects
- Graymont Avenue intersects, street continues as Bush Hills Boulevard
- 15th Street West intersects
- 1556: Dorothy's Fashions
- 16th Street West intersects, location of the "Bush Hills sinkhole" (2008)
- 1632: Ella V's Cookies
- street continues as 17th Street Ensley
