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The '''Eyer-Raden building''' is a 3-story commercial building at the southwest corner of [[22nd Street South|22nd Street]] and [[2nd Avenue South]].
#REDIRECT [[Raden building]]
 
When it was built around [[1895]] by [[Morris Raden]], [[Block 137]] was otherwise occupied only by modest dwellings. The 50-foot by 100-foot brick building has a moulded metal cornice interrupted by a small gable above the stair entrance on 22nd Street. The cornice is supported on engaged piers and a corbeled band. The tall windows are topped by projecting arches tops and connected by a continuous rowlock sill. The shops feature full-width glazed transoms.
 
The ground floor of the building was divided into stores. [[Daniel Eyer]] opened a grocery store in the corner spot of the new building, but the other stores remained largely vacant for several years. The upper levels were operated as a boarding or rooming house well into the 1950s.
 
Over time the Eyer-Raden building was absorbed into what became [[Birmingham]]'s "[[Automotive Historic District|Automotive District]]", booming with auto sales, parts and service businesses. The building is now recognized as a "contributing structure" to the [[Automotive Historic District]], which was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham|National Register of Historic Places]] in [[1991]].
 
Developer [[Ward Neely]] of [[Neely Construction]] began redeveloping the vacant building in [[2020]]. During demolition, crews uncovered artifacts and inscriptions dating to the building's former use as a rooming house.
 
==Tenants==
* 22nd Street South
** 200: former location of [[Daniel Eyer]] grocery (1896-1899), [[W. E. Bower]] saloon (1904-1910), [[Excelsior Bakery]] (1914–1918), [[Busy Bee Café]] (mid 1920s–early 1930s), [[Southside Paint & Supply Co.]] (1940–1950)
** 202–206: former location of [[Refrigeration Sales & Service]] (1940), [[Maske & Kent Refrigeration Co.]] (1941)
** 204-208: former location of [[Walter White Auto Parts]] (1957-2007)
*** 204-206: former location of electric shop (1957)
**** 204: former location of [[Daniel Eyer]] saloon (1899), [[James J. Jones]] barber shop (1907)
***** 204½: former location of [[Mary Raden]] boarding house (1896), [[Louise Curtis]] boarding house (1899), [[Tony Sautter]] salesman (1910), [[Southside Rooming House]] ([[Guy Masterson]] 1940–1957)
**** 206: former location of [[Birmingham Automotive Service]] (2007), [[Southern Radiator & Cooling]] (2016–2019)
*** 208: former location of [[Henderson Brewing Co.]] (1900), [[DeWolfe Co.]] carpenters ([[Fred DeWolfe]] 1914), [[Federal-Mogul Service]] bearings (1941)
 
==References==
* "Birmingham developer uncovers brothel history at old hotel in Southside." (February 13, 2020) WVTM.com

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