33rd Street South

33rd Street South (or Thirty-third Street South) is a two-way north-south street in Birmingham's Southside neighborhood.

The street is interrupted by the former Lakeview Park, now the BBVA Harry B. Brock Administrative Center and Highland Park. The northernmost section of the street runs between 3rd Avenue South and 6th Avenue South in the Lakeview District.

Another section of the street, primarily residential, runs south from Highland Avenue, up the slope of Red Mountain to Hillside Avenue. This section was formerly named Violet Street, and later Whitaker Street.

Where 33rd Street South meets Cliff Road coming from the west, the street takes that name for a little less than 200 feet before Cliff Road breaks off again to the east. Another short section connects Hillside Avenue to the Altamont Patio Condominiums just below Pawnee Avenue.

33rd Street South serves as part of the boundary of the Country Club Historic District.

Notable locations

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 33rd Street South category.

Southside

• street begins north of 3rd Avenue South
  • west side:
    • 230: parking lot for Mayer Lighting Showroom
  • east side:
    • 231: Dorothy McDaniel's Flower Market, former location of Putt-Putt Golf Course

• 3rd Avenue South intersects
  • west side:
    • 300–330: Birmingham Career Center (2017–), former location of Bowl Lo-Mac bowling center, LabCorp
  • east side:
    • 301–331: vacant block, former location of Westinghouse Electric Co. (demolished 2016)

• 4th Avenue South intersects
  • west side:
    • 400–414: parking lot for Dewberry Building (built 1940s), 1917 Clinic / Birmingham AIDS Outreach (2020–), former location of Dewberry Engraving (1940s–1959), Baptist Health System offices (1959–2013)
    • 416–430: parking lot, former location of Dewberry Building warehouse annex (demolished 2019)
  • east side:
    • 401–431: parking lot for BBVA

• 5th Avenue South intersects
  • west side:
    • 500–530: parking lot for BBVA
      • 516–530: former location of kennels for Lakeview Pet Wellness Center (demolished before 2016)
  • east side:
    • 501–515: side lot for Kendall Electric, former location of Salvation Army Rescue Home (1909–1926)
    • 517–531: Electrical Repair Service Co. (1970–)
• street ends at 6th Avenue South

• street resumes at Highland Avenue
  • west side:
    • 1200–1212: Monterey Apartments
    • 1216: M. E. Schillinger residence (built 1914)
    • 1220: R. A. McCalley residence (built 1907)
    • 1224: Gage-Bowen residence (built 1908)
    • 1230: residence
  • east side:
    • 1201–1217: Highland Riviera Apartments
    • 1225–1229: Highland Manor Townhomes

• Cliff Road intersects, street continues as Cliff Road
  • west side (Block 864):
    • corner (3225 Cliff Road): Viola Redin residence (built c. 1918)
    • 1260: Charles Glasser residence (built c. 1912)

• street resumes
  • west side:
    • 1316: Cliff Place Apartments (built 1967 as Clifftown Apartments)
    • 1330: Whitehead residence (built 1913)
  • east side:
    • 1301: Park Hill Apartments
    • 1329: Adelene Apartments (built c. 1927)

• 32nd Street South intersects (west only)
  • west side:
    • 1400: Dacoy Apartments (built 1977)
    • 1420: Jefferson Apartments (built c. 1908)
    • 1426: Highland Terrace Apartments (built c. 1925 as Whittaker Terrace Apartments)
    • 1430: Clark residence (built c. 1917)
  • east side:
    • 1411: Mayer residence (built c. 1923)
    • 1417–1419: Redwood Manor Apartments
    • 1423: Campbell residence (built c. 1923)
    • 1425: Rich residence (built c. 1928)
    • 1431: Cornell residence (built c. 1928)

• street ends at Hillside Avenue
• street resumes
  • west side:
    • 1500: Belmont Apartments (built c. 1928)
    • 1508: Caribou Apartments (built 1973)
    • 1512: Ruthlon Apartments (built c. 1928)
    • 1514: duplex residence (built c. 1940s)
  • east side:
    • 1501: Altamont Patio Condiminiums