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==== [[11th Street North|11th Street]] intersection====
==== [[11th Street North|11th Street]] intersection====
* north side ([[Block 91]])
* north side ([[Block 91]])
** 1100-1130: [[Pack Health Building]] (built before 1994, former location of the [[Entrepreneurial Center]] (1990s-2007), [[Gallet & Associates]] (2007-2009), [[Terracon]] (2009-2017)
** 1100-1132: [[Pack Health Building]] (built before 1994, former location of the [[Entrepreneurial Center]] (1990s-2007), [[Gallet & Associates]] (2007-2009), [[Terracon]] (2009-2017)
*** 1100: former location of [[Augustus Dunker]] (1896)
*** 1100: former location of [[Augustus Dunker]] (1896), [[Empire Seafood Co.]] wholesale seafood (1953)
*** 1106: former location of [[Earl Gunter]] produce (1953)
*** 1130-1132: former location of [[Harris & Nail Produce]] / [[Dixie Wholesale Produce Co.]] / [[Wells Produce Co.]] / [[Tannory Produce Co.]] / [[Gustin Produce Co.]] (1953)
**** 1132: former location of [[Henry & Phillips Produce Co.]] / [[Richard George Jr]]  /  [[B. F. Waldrop]] wholesale produce (1953)
* south side ([[Block 111C]])
* south side ([[Block 111C]])
** [[Alagasco Metro Operations Center]] (built 2015)
** [[Alagasco Metro Operations Center]] (built 2015)
*** 1109: former location of [[Espy Produce Co.]] (1953)
*** 1111: former location of [[Market Cafe]] (1953)
*** 1131: former location of [[Alamo Produce Co.]] / [[G. I. Produce Co.]] / [[Low Cost Produce Co.]] / [[Clarence Cole]] / [[Pete Tortorigi]] / [[Mitchell Alexander]] wholesale produce
*** 1133: former location of [[Jefferson County Truck Growers Association]] produce (1953)


==== [[12th Street North|12th Street]] intersection====
==== [[12th Street North|12th Street]] intersection====

Revision as of 13:37, 25 May 2019

1st Avenue North (Downtown) is the section of 1st Avenue North running through downtown Birmingham's Fountain Heights and Central City neighborhoods, between 13th and 26th Streets. The street is also part of U.S. Highway 11.

In the downtown area, 1st Avenue North has a 100-foot right of way, 20 feet wider than the typical street. It carries two lanes of traffic in each direction with a central turn lane and parallel parking at each curb.


Locations

1st Avenue North continues west through Smithfield to Center Street, continuing as Cotton Avenue Southwest

Fountain Heights

11th Street intersection

12th Street intersection

13th Street intersection

14th Street intersection

15th Street intersection (closed)

16th Street intersection

17th Street intersection

18th Street intersection

The Pandora Cafeteria at 1804-1806 1st Avenue North (1927-1936)

Central City neighborhood

19th Street intersection

1890s view looking east down 1st Avenue, possibly from the Morris Block.

20th Street intersection: Heaviest Corner on Earth

21st Street intersection (Rainbow Viaduct)

22nd Street intersection

23rd Street intersection

24th Street intersection

25th Street intersection