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===[[Fountain Heights]]===
===[[Fountain Heights]]===
* [[Interstate 65]] overpass
* [[Interstate 65]] offramp at [[11th Street North]]
* [[11th Street North]] intersection
** 1100: [[Mike's Downtown Shell]]
** 1100: [[Mike's Downtown Shell]]
** 1101: Texaco containing a [[Sneaky Pete's]]
** 1101: Texaco containing a [[Sneaky Pete's]]
** 1129: [[Sera-Tech Biologicals]] & [[Biomat USA]]
* [[12th Street North]] intersection
* [[12th Street North]] intersection
* former [[Birmingham Southern Railroad]] crossing
* former [[St Louis & San Francisco Railway]] crossing
** 1200: [[America's First Federal Credit Union]] headquarters
** 1200: [[America's First Federal Credit Union]] headquarters
* [[13th Street North]] intersection
** 1227-1229: former location of [[David Tire Co.]] (1964)
* [[14th Street North]] intersection
* [[13th Street North]] intersects
** 1421: formerly ''[[Glare]]'' offices
** 1301: [[Jim Burke Nissan]]
** 1328: former location of [[John Dumas Restaurant]] (1964)
* [[14th Street North]] intersects
** 1410: former location of [[Arrow-Smith Co.]] heating contractors (1964)
** 1417: former location of [[Points Building Co.]] (1964)
** 1417½ : former location of [[Bonanza's Metropolitan Social Club]] (1964)
** 1419: former location of [[Contractors Association Inc.]] (1964)
** 1421-1423: former location of [[Forniss Printing Company]] (1964), offices of ''[[Glare]]'' magazine
** 1427: former location of [[Edwards Chevrolet]] body shop (1964)
* [[15th Street North]] intersection
* [[15th Street North]] intersection
** 1500: former location of [[Smith & Gaston Funeral Home]] (1964)
** 1517: former location of [[Mirror Publishing Co.]] (1964), offices of ''[[The Birmingham Mirror]]''
** 1518: former location of [[Dester Brooks Flower Shop]] (1964)
** 1522: [[Gay Office Supply]], former location of [[Ann's Gifts and Ready To Wear]] (1964)
** 1530: [[Metropolitan AME Zion Church]]
** 1531: [[Mrs B's on Fourth]]
** former site of [[Brown Belle Bottling Company]]
** former site of [[Brown Belle Bottling Company]]
* [[16th Street North]] intersection
* [[16th Street North]] intersection

Revision as of 16:18, 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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