Taylor Carriage Co. building
The Taylor Carriage Co. building is a three-story, 10,000 square-foot commercial building located on Block 83 at 2214 2nd Avenue North in downtown Birmingham. It was built around 1905 for the Taylor Carriage Co., on a site previously occupied by the Southern Pacific Tea Co.
In 2004 it was purchased for $212,000 by Janice Ballard and renovated for her law offices. She moved her Ballard Law Firm into the building, and leased space to the Larkin Law Firm.
In 2019 Ballard sold the building to Hiatus Holdings, an LLC connected to architect Jay Pigford, for $1.625 million. The two law firms relocated to the Newspaper Union Building at 104 23rd Street South. Pigford's wife, Courtney moved her Honeycreeper Chocolate business to the building in 2021.
Tenants
- Taylor Carriage Co. (1905–1910)
- Church Carriage Co. (1912)
- Henry Joseph dry goods (1916)
- Hoover & McCurry Furniture Co. / W. H. Ferris (1920)
- Prince & Broadhead Furniture Co. (1924)
- W. Y. Prince furnitures (1928)
- R. A. Green Furniture (1929)
- vacant (1935)
- Wholesale Paint Distributors (1957-1970)
- Lucas Paint & Wallpaper / Pan-Atlantic Wallpaper & Paint Co. (1964–1970)
- Lucas Paints (1984)
- Ballard Law Firm (2004–2019)
- Honeycreeper Chocolate (Courtney Pigford 2021–2023)
- Basic clothier (Lucy Woodroof 2021–)
- Grounds coffee shop (Reggie Collier 2023–)
References
- Van der Bijl, Hanno (November 11, 2019) "Historic Loft District property sells for $1.6M." Birmingham Business Journal