14th Avenue South

14th Avenue South is a street in Birmingham's Southside.

14th Avenue South begins at 10th Street South north of Glen Iris Park. The street jogs slightly north at 12th Street South and again at 14th Street South, where it runs along the south edge of Phelan Park. From there the street continues to 21st Way South, just short of the Elton B. Stephens Expressway. Caldwell Avenue in Highland Park was formerly a discontinuous section of 14th Avenue South.

MAX Transit Route 14 uses 14th Avenue South between 10th and 12th Street. The south side of 14th Avenue, between 15th and 18th Streets, is part of the Anderson Place Historic District. The section of 14th Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets is part of the Phelan Park Historic District.

Caldwell Avenue, which runs between Milner Street and Smolian Place was also considered part of 14th Avenue South until sometime between 1929 and 1937.

Notable addresses

Dates in parentheses indicate when the address was known to have been used, not necessarily the entire span of its use.

Glen Iris neighborhood

• 10th Street South intersects
• 1015 (formerly numbered 815): former location of Glen View Apartments (1929-1970)
  • 1020: Glen Iris Baptist School

• 10th Place South intersects
  • 1030: Glen Iris Baptist Church, WGIB-FM studios (2002-)
  • 1038: Glen Iris Baptist Church Sunday School (1970)
  • 1040: (formerly numbered 916): former location of Waverly Apartments (1929–1953)
  • 1042: Glen Iris Baptist Church education building (1953)

• 11th Street South intersects
  • 1100: Glen Iris Elementary School
  • 1125: former location of Richard Smyer residence (1937)

Five Points South neighborhood

• 11th Place South intersects
  • 1131: former location of apartments (1970)
  • 1135: former location of Mrs N. R. Wallace residence (1929), Maureen White dance instructor (1937), Neighborhood House day nursery (1970), One Place Metro Alabama Family Justice Center (–2022)

• Cullum Street intersects (north only)
  • 1147: former location of apartment building (1953), Lewis Apartments (1970)
  • 1149: former location of Howard Hall residence (1952), apartments (1970)
  • 1153: former location of apartments (1970)
  • 1155: former location of Moses Damsky residence (1929), Edward McCain (1953), apartments (1970)
  • 1157: former location of apartments (1970)
  • 1159: former location of Edgar Little residence (1953), apartments (1970)
  • 1167–1169: former location of an apartment building (1941-1970)
    • 1169: former location of A. E. Fell residence (1929)

• 12th Street South intersects (avenue jogs north)
  • 1200: UAB Highlands (2006-), formerly South Highlands Infirmary (1910-1989), HealthSouth Medical Center (1989-2006)

• 13th Street South intersects
  • 1301: former location of N. S. Shahid residence (1929), apartments (1970)
  • 1313: former location of D. B. Dimick residence (1916)
  • 1320: former location of C. S. Caldwell residence (1916–1922)
  • 1325: WellHouse shelter (2011-), former location of Schuyler Harris residence (1922), E. J. Harris (1929)

• 13th Place South intersects
  • 1332: former location of Elmonico Apartments (1970)
  • 1336: former location of D. T. Feidelson residence (1922–1929)
  • 1340: former location of Silverado Apartments (1937-1970)
  • 1353: former location of J. R. Payne residence (1922)

• 14th Street South intersects (avenue jogs north)
  • Phelan Park, ZYP kiosk no. 31
  • 1401: Parking lot for Dreamland Bar-B-Que, former location of apartments (1980's)
  • 1427-1431: Dreamland Bar-B-Que (1993-)
    • 1427: former location of Ware & Co. (1916), Hooper-Allbritton Grocery Co. (1922-1941), B & H Food Store (1953), Gibbs-Foster Drug Co. (1970)
    • 1429: former location of Thompson Brothers (1926), J. R. Gregory shoe repair (1929), William Cruce barber (1937–1941), James Vinyard barber (1953), Kut N Kurl beauty salon (1970)
    • 1431: former location of LaDame Laundry (1937–1953), Pat's Barber Shop (1970)

• 15th Place South intersects
  • 1500: former location of Alan Jemison residence (1916), Adolph Kessler (1922–1937)
  • 1501: Wilson Market
  • 1503: former location of Mrs W. S. Edwards / J. F. Day (1916)
  • 1509: former location of H. I. Goldstein residence (1922), Kate Millican (1929–1937), J. L. Vise contractor (1953), apartments (1970)
  • 1521: former location of The Veranda apartments (1970)
  • 1524: Ashford Terrace Apartments, former location of C. J. Simmons residence (1922)
  • 1527: former location of M. S. Blank residence (1916), Bertha Blank (1922–1937)

• 16th Place South intersects
  • 1600-1602: former location of Morris Apartments (1926-1970)
  • 1605: former location of E. B. Erwin residence (1922)
  • 1608: former location of Eugene Breeden residence (1937), Baronne Apartments (1970)
  • 1609: former location of Max Meyerson residence (1916), Arion Apartments (1926-1970)
  • 1620: Element 26 Apartments (built 1970 as Highland Ridge Apartments), former location of J. R. Barker residence (1922), Virgil Powell / Rigdon Darby (1937)
  • 1629: Merry Rowe Apartments

• 17th Street South intersects
  • 1700: former location of Hyman Mayberger residence (1922–1937)
  • 1702: former location of Leon Newman residence (1922)
  • 1712: former location of W. B. Shields residence (1922–1929)
  • 1717: former location of T. H. Vaughan residence (1916), E. H. Loyd (1922)

• 17th Place South intersects (north only)
  • north side:
    • 1712:
    • 1716: residence, former location of Patience Claybon psychiatrist (1986–2011)
    • 1718–1720: attached townhouses
      • 1720: former location of J. B. Hayden residence (1916), Mrs L. M. Hayden (1922), Velda Wyatt (1929), apartment building (1937-1970)

• 17th Way South intersects (south only)
• 17th Place South intersects (north only)
  • north side:
    • 1722: apartment building
    • 1730: Prescott House, former location of C. F. Bates (1916), G. T. Gambrill Jr (1922), J. B. Mauney (1929)
    • 1830: Andrew Duckett periodontist, former location of Rebecca Marks residence (1916–1937), Dan Lowery / Joseph Dolce dentists / Stephen Kelly physician (1970)

• 18th Street South intersects (south only)
  • 1800: Birmingham Police Department South Precinct
  • 1801: Young Life (2023–), former location of W. G. Estest residence (1916) W. R. Graves (1922) Joseph Leitman (1929), Poole, Pardue & Morrison architects (1961-1982), apartments (1970), Summit Medical Center (-2006), Children's Dental Center
  • 1834: former location of H. W. Coffin residence (1916–1922)

• 19th Street South intersects
  • 1900: Oasis Counseling For Women & Children, former location of Gordon Robinson residence (1916–1937), Alford Wade / Richard Carter / Walter McCoy physicians (1953), Walter McCoy / William Moughon physicians (1970)
  • 1901: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham, former location of R. K. Haughton (1916), G. H. Rogers (1922), Mrs K. C. McConnell (1929), Raymond Callen (1937), Irvine Tourist Home (1953), Mountainaire Tourist Home (1970)
  • 1905: Burton Law Firm, former location of G. H. Rogers residence (1916), W. T. Brown (1922), apartments (1937-1970)
  • 1912: former location of F. L. Hume / Ferdinand Duntley (1922), C. L. Sullivan (1929), Restful Woodview Tourist Home (1941), Woodview Tourist Home (Nettie Smith 1953)
  • 1916: former location of W. H. McFarland residence (1922), J. A. Commander / Susan Abbott residence (1929), apartments (1970)
  • 1922: former location of R. A. Jones physician (1922–1929), Mountainair Tourist Home (Willow Irvine 1953)
  • 1923: former location of the Frank Lathrop residence (built 1904, burned 2014), Frank Lathrop (1904–1936), Sally Comer Lathrop (1937), Douglas Clinic (1947–1970), vacant (1970s-1990s), location of Employee Assistance Services (1990s), ADAC Community Counseling Center (2008-2014)
  • 1925-1931: Legacy Community Federal Credit Union, former location of Glorianne Apartments (1970), Charles H. McCauley & Associates
    • 1925: former location of C. N. Lanier residence (1929), Fred Fox (1937)
    • 1931–1935: former location of B. B. Comer residence (1916–1926)

• Cobb Lane intersects (north only)

• 20th Street South intersects
  • former terminus of the South Highland Line and Red Mountain Railroad
  • 2001: Gateway administrative offices
  • 2012: Jefferson Alcoholics Foundation, former location of Bridge Studio Club (1970)
  • 2017: former location of L. B. Schwarz residence (1916), Henrietta Schwarz (1922)
  • 2026: former location of Madison Apartments (1916-1970)

• Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard South intersects (formerly 21st Street South)
  • north side:
    • 2110–2110: vacant lot
    • 2112: 2112 14th Avenue South (round building)
  • south side:
    • 2101–2113: vacant lot
      • 2101–2109: former location of 1-story office building (demolished before 2011)
        • 2109: former location of A. J. Townley residence (1916)

• 21st Place South intersects
  • north side:
    • 2118: former location of Boyd Tarpley dentist (1953–1970)
    • 2122: former location of R. H. Hamreck physician (1929)
    • 2136: former location of W. D. Sellers physician (1929)
    • 2160: Simon-Buck residence (built c. 1930), Frank S. Buck attorney, former location of Frank Simon (1937), Maxey Gabbert & Co. advertisers (1970)
    • 2170: Liddon Law Firm
  • south side:
    • 2121: Complete Dental Care, former location of Jennie Stewart residence (1937), William Crandall / Jack Nolan dentists (1970)
    • 2127: Avail Services, former location of J. N. Cunningham residence (1929), Hamilton McPherson (1937), Milner Snuggs dentist (1970)
    • 2133: former location of W. R. Hendrix residence (1929)
    • 2141: Steelcase Inc., former location of Linda McConnell residence (1929–1937), General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1970), Bodine (1982-2009)
    • 2151: former location of Kenwood Apartments (1929-1970)
    • 2157: former location of James Pipen residence (1937), apartments (1953)

• • 2165: Bugge Law Firm, former location of Woody Thornton Refrigeration Repair (1970)

• Avenue ends at 21st Way South