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** North side ([[Block 60]])
** North side ([[Block 60]])
*** 1900-1902:  [[Trailways Bus Depot]] (site of [[Freedom Rides]] attack on [[May 14]], [[1961]])
*** 1900-1902:  [[Trailways Bus Depot]] (site of [[Freedom Rides]] attack on [[May 14]], [[1961]])
**** 1900: [[Wells Fargo]] drive-thru ATM, former location of [[City Hall Lunch Room]] (1929), [[Silver Fox Bakery]] (1941)
**** 1900: [[Wells Fargo]] drive-thru ATM, former location of [[City Hall Lunch Room]] (1928-1929), [[Silver Fox Bakery]] (1941)
**** 1902: former location of [[Martin Clothing Co.]] (1929)
**** 1902: former location of [[Martin Clothing Co.]] (1929)
*** 1904-1906: former location of [[Arnold Clothing Co.]] (1941)
*** 1904-1906: former location of [[Arnold Clothing Co.]] (1941)
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**** 1911: former location of [[City Hall Barber Shop]] (1929), [[Jefferson County Board of Health]] WPA project bureau (1941), [[Community Finance & Thrift]] & [[Community Acceptance Co.]] (1964)
**** 1911: former location of [[City Hall Barber Shop]] (1929), [[Jefferson County Board of Health]] WPA project bureau (1941), [[Community Finance & Thrift]] & [[Community Acceptance Co.]] (1964)
**** 1913: former location of [[Birmingham Traffic Department]] (1929), [[City Industrial Water]] (1941), [[City Parking Deck]]
**** 1913: former location of [[Birmingham Traffic Department]] (1929), [[City Industrial Water]] (1941), [[City Parking Deck]]
**** 1915: [[Gus's Hot Dogs]], former location of [[Cozy Lunch Room]] (1929), [[Woodford Electric Supply Co.]] (1941), [[Chesterfield Co.]] loans (1964)
**** 1915: [[Gus's Hot Dogs]], former location of [[Cozy Lunch Room]] (1928-1929), [[Woodford Electric Supply Co.]] (1941), [[Chesterfield Co.]] loans (1964)
***** 1915½: [[City Traffic Division]] paint & sign (1941)
***** 1915½: [[City Traffic Division]] paint & sign (1941)
*** 1917-1933: parking lot
*** 1917-1933: parking lot
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*** 2522: former location of [[Sheppard Furniture]] warehouse (1964)
*** 2522: former location of [[Sheppard Furniture]] warehouse (1964)
*** 2527: former location of [[Walter Jackson]] barber (1941), [[Mitchell's Barber Shop]] (1964)
*** 2527: former location of [[Walter Jackson]] barber (1941), [[Mitchell's Barber Shop]] (1964)
*** 2529-2531: former location of [[James Despanakis]] restaurant (1941)
*** 2529-2531: former location of [[James Despanakis]] restaurant (1928-1941), [[Crystal Lunch Room]] (1964)
**** 2531: former location of [[Crystal Lunch Room]] (1964)


[[Category:4th Avenue North|*]]
[[Category:4th Avenue North|*]]

Revision as of 16:29, 29 June 2016

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

The New Deal Barber Shop at 1701 4th Avenue North
Mewbourne & Spain at 1809 4th Avenue North
The Fox Building at 1824-30 4th Avenue North

Central City

Birmingham City Hall in 1927
1900 block of 4th Avenue North
Southern Hotel at 4th & 20th
BPA Deck 3 addition (2009)