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===[[Smithfield neighborhood]]===
===[[Smithfield neighborhood]]===
* [[Center Street]] intersection
* [[Center Street]] intersects
** 416: [[R C Body Shop]]
* [[1st Street North]] intersects
* [[9th Street North]] intersection
* [[2nd Street North]] intersects
** 221: former location of [[Stacey Williams Co.]] food brokers & [[Yellow Label Syrup]] manufacturers (1964)
** 230: former location of [[Mutual Service Station]] (1964)
* [[3rd Street North]] intersects (north only)
** 301: former location of [[Mercury Freight Lines]] garage (1964)
** 312: former location of [[Mercury Freight Lines]] (1964)
* [[Atlantic Coast Line Railroad]] crosses
* [[4th Street North]] intersects
* [[Valley Creek]] crosses
** 416: [[R C Body Shop]], former location of [[Carroll Machine & Welding]] (1964)
* [[5th Street North]] intersects
** 501: [[Parnell's Tire & Wash]]
** 520: former location of [[Associated Cleaning Contractors]] (1964)
** 524: former location of [[Genuine Parts Co.]] (1964)
** 529-531: former location of [[Circle E S Steak House]] (1964)
* [[6th Street North]] intersects
** 601: former location of [[Mark's Oxygen Co.]]
** 610: [[New St James Baptist Church]]
* [[9th Street North]] intersects
** [[Adams Inn]]
** [[Adams Inn]]
* [[10th Street North]] intersection
* [[10th Street North]] intersection

Revision as of 15:59, 22 February 2015

Fourth Avenue North is an east-west street running through downtown Birmingham. It runs from Center Street in the west to 24th Street North in the east. From 9th to 24th Streets, the three- to four-lane street is one way westbound.

The road appears again as a two-lane residential street between Interstate 59 and Wahouma Park, west of 72nd Street. It is interrupted by the interstate between 75th and 77th Streets, but then continues from 77th to 88th Place, running between Lynn Park and East Lake Park.

Fourth Avenue runs through a few historic districts, including its own 4th Avenue Historic District (from 16th to 19th Street), the Civil Rights District, and the Loft District. In addition, the buildings at 1914, 1917, 1919, and 1930 are part of the Downtown Birmingham Retail and Theatre Historic District.

History

Fourth Avenue originally extended east to 26th Street North, but when the Birmingham Post Office was constructed in the early 1970s, it occupied the space where the street had run.

4th Avenue North was converted from two-way to one-way (westbound) traffic was from 24th Street North to 9th Street North in 1973 by the Alabama Department of Transportation's TOPICS (Traffic Operations Program to Increase Capacity and Safety) program.

Notable locations

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 4th Avenue North category.

Smithfield neighborhood

Fountain Heights

Central City

1900 block of 4th Avenue North
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