14th Avenue South
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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 2500 and 2700 blocks of what had formerly been planned as 14th Avenue South were renamed Caldwell Avenue.
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 (1937-1970)
- 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 (1937–1953)
- 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 Maureen White dance instructor (1937), Neighborhood House day nursery (1970)
- 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 Edward McCain residence (1953), apartments (1970)
- 1157: former location of apartments (1970)
- 1159: former location of Edgar Little residence (1953), apartments (1970)
- 1167: former location of an apartment building (1941-1970)
- 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 apartments (1970)
- 1325: WellHouse shelter (2011-)
- 13th Place South intersects
- 1332: former location of Elmonico Apartments (1970)
- 1340: former location of Silverado Apartments (1937-1970)
- 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 Hooper-Allbritton Grocery Co. (1926-1941), B & H Food Store (1953), Gibbs-Foster Drug Co. (1970)
- 1429: former location of Thompson Brothers (1926), 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
- 1501: Wilson Market
- 1509: former location of J. L. Vise contractor (1953), apartments (1970)
- 1521: former location of The Veranda apartments (1970)
- 16th Place South intersects
- 1600-1602: former location of Morris Apartments (1926-1970)
- 1608: former location of Eugene Breeden residence (1937), Baronne Apartments (1970)
- 1609: former location of Arion Apartments (1926-1970)
- 1620: Element 26 Apartments (built 1970 as Highland Ridge Apartments), former location of Virgil Powell / Rigdon Darby residence (1937)
- 17th Street South intersects
- 1700: former location of Hyman Mayberger residence (1937)
- 17th Place South intersects (north only)
- 1720: former location of apartment building (1937-1970)
- 17th Way South intersects (south only)
- 1730: Prescott House
- 18th Street South intersects (south only)
- 1800: Birmingham Police Department South Precinct
- 1801: Children's Dental Center, former location of Poole, Pardue & Morrison architects (1961-1982), apartments (1970), Summit Medical Center (-2006)
- 1830: Andrew Duckett periodontist, former location of Rebecca Marks residence (1937), Dan Lowery / Joseph Dolce dentists / Stephen Kelly physician (1970)
- 19th Street South intersects
- 1900: Oasis, former location of Gordon Robinson residence (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 Raymond Callen residence (1937), Irvine Tourist Home (1953), Mountainaire Tourist Home (1970)
- 1905: Burton Law Firm, former location of apartments (1937-1970)
- 1912: former location of Restful Woodview Tourist Home (1941), Woodview Tourist Home (Nettie Smith 1953)
- 1916: former location of apartments (1970)
- 1922: former location oof Mountainair Tourist Home (Willow Irvine 1953)
- 1923: former location of the Frank Lathrop residence (built 1904, burned 2014), 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 Fred Fox residence (1937), Glorianne Apartments (1970), Charles H. McCauley & Associates
- 1931: former location of B. B. Comer residence (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)
- 2026: former location of Madison Apartments (1926-1970)
- Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard South intersects (formerly 21st Street South)
- 21st Place South intersects
- 2118: former location of Boyd Tarpley dentist (1953–1970)
- 2121: Complete Dental Care, former location of Jennie Stewart residence (1937), William Crandall / Jack Nolan dentists (1970)
- 2127: Avail Services, former location of Hamilton McPherson residence (1937), Milner Snuggs dentist (1970)
- 2141: Steelcase Inc., former location of Linda McConnell residence (1937), General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1970), Bodine (1982-2009)
- 2151: former location of The Kenwood apartments (1937-1970)
- 2157: former location of James Pipen residence (1937), apartments (1953)
- 2160: Simon-Buck residence (built c. 1930), Frank S. Buck attorney, former location of Frank Simon (1937), Maxey Gabbert & Co. advertisers (1970)
- 2165: Bugge Law Firm, former location of Woody Thornton Refrigeration Repair (1970)
- 2170: Liddon Law Firm
- Avenue ends at 21st Way South