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** 1604: [[Andrew LaPlante]] attorney | ** 1604: [[Andrew LaPlante]] attorney | ||
** 1616: [[Hall & Tucker]] attorneys | ** 1616: [[Hall & Tucker]] attorneys | ||
** 1620: former location of [[Brownell Motors]] (1927) | |||
** 1601-1631: [[DeBardeleben Park]] (dedicated 1888) | ** 1601-1631: [[DeBardeleben Park]] (dedicated 1888) | ||
* [[17th Street North Bessemer]] intersects | * [[17th Street North Bessemer]] intersects | ||
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* [[18th Street North Bessemer]] intersects | * [[18th Street North Bessemer]] intersects | ||
** north side: | ** north side: | ||
*** 1800-1810: [[Bessemer Industrial Development Board]], former location [[1941 Bessemer City Hall|Bessemer City Hall]] (built 1941) | *** 1800–1816: proposed apartment and retail development | ||
*** 1812: vacant lot (2018-) | **** 1800-1810: [[Bessemer Industrial Development Board]], former location [[1941 Bessemer City Hall|Bessemer City Hall]] (built 1941) | ||
*** 1814-1816: vacant lot (2018-), former location of [[J. W. McDonald Furniture Mfg. Co.]] | **** 1812: vacant lot (2018-) | ||
**** 1814-1816: vacant lot (2018-), former location of [[J. W. McDonald Furniture Mfg. Co.]] | |||
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*** 1820: [[Black Belt Law Group]] / ''[[Alabama Messenger]]'' | *** 1820: [[Black Belt Law Group]] / ''[[Alabama Messenger]]'' | ||
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**** 1828: former location of [[Java Jimz Cafe]] (2006-) | **** 1828: former location of [[Java Jimz Cafe]] (2006-) | ||
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*** 1801-1811: [[Jefferson County Courthouse]] | *** 1801-1811: [[Jefferson County Courthouse Bessemer Division]] (built 1920, expanded 1949) | ||
*** 1813: [[Bains & Terry]] attorneys | *** 1813: [[Bains & Terry]] attorneys | ||
*** 1815-1817: [[Killings & Poe]] attorneys | *** 1815-1817: [[Killings & Poe]] attorneys | ||
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*** 1909-1911: [[The Everything Store]] | *** 1909-1911: [[The Everything Store]] | ||
*** 1913-1923: [[As-Is Store]] | *** 1913-1923: [[As-Is Store]] | ||
**** 1919-1923: former location of [[E. L. Huey Furniture Company]] (built 1905) | |||
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*** 1927: | *** 1927: | ||
Latest revision as of 10:14, 17 March 2021
3rd Avenue North Bessemer is an east-west avenue paralleling the Alabama Great Southern Railroad tracks through downtown Bessemer, from just west of 1st Street to 22nd Street and the Interstate Industrial Park at Woodward Junction.
3rd Avenue is discontinuous between 4th and 7th Streets North at Carver Park, where the former Union High School once stood. A diagonal section of 3rd Avenue connects 2nd and 4th Avenue North across the gap. The avenue jogs northward at 9th Street, continuing along the south side of Snitz Snider Memorial Stadium. The avenue is interrupted again between 20th and 21st Streets.
Notable addresses (southwest to northeast)
- 800: Good Hope Presbyterian Church
- 900: Snitz Snider Stadium (built 1920s)
- Avenue crosses over Halls Creek
- 1230: Bessemer Independent Church of God
- 1401-1431: Fountain of Life Ministries (rear)
- 1524: Southern Foodsmiths
- 16th Street North Bessemer intersects
- 1604: Andrew LaPlante attorney
- 1616: Hall & Tucker attorneys
- 1620: former location of Brownell Motors (1927)
- 1601-1631: DeBardeleben Park (dedicated 1888)
- 17th Street North Bessemer intersects
- 1701-1730: Bessemer City Hall (built 2016)
- 1701: Cason's Flowers
- 1709: Western Star
- 1723: Perfecting Reconciliation Church International
- 18th Street North Bessemer intersects
- north side:
- 1800–1816: proposed apartment and retail development
- 1800-1810: Bessemer Industrial Development Board, former location Bessemer City Hall (built 1941)
- 1812: vacant lot (2018-)
- 1814-1816: vacant lot (2018-), former location of J. W. McDonald Furniture Mfg. Co.
- 1818:
- 1820: Black Belt Law Group / Alabama Messenger
- 1824-1830: Realty Building
- 1828: former location of Java Jimz Cafe (2006-)
- 1800–1816: proposed apartment and retail development
- south side:
- 1801-1811: Jefferson County Courthouse Bessemer Division (built 1920, expanded 1949)
- 1813: Bains & Terry attorneys
- 1815-1817: Killings & Poe attorneys
- 1819: Bessemer Finance
- 1821:
- 1823: Bonham Law Firm
- 1825: Bret Gray / John Tindle / Erica Gray attorneys
- 1827: Cake Creations bakery
- 1831: Auto Express Insurance
- north side:
- 19th Street North Bessemer intersects
- north side:
- 1900-1908: Standard Furniture
- 1910-1918: former location of Ward-McClure Furniture / Sofa City (1932-2010s)
- 1920: Credit Bureau of Bessemer
- 1922-1924: Martin Furniture building (built 1904), Just In Time Legal Solutions (2019-), former location of Martin Furniture Co. (1904-)
- 1926: American Legion Post 149
- 1928-1930: Elrod Mobility
- south side:
- 1901-1907: former location of Spencer Furniture, CK's Variety train mural
- 1909-1911: The Everything Store
- 1913-1923: As-Is Store
- 1919-1923: former location of E. L. Huey Furniture Company (built 1905)
- 1925:
- 1927:
- 1931-1933: Pinktopps Resource & Wellness Center (2018), former location of LaShandra's Touched by Designz (2016)
- north side:
- 20th Street North Bessemer, avenue ends
- 21st Street North Bessemer, avenue resumes
- 2105: Masonry Arts
- 22nd Street North Bessemer, avenue ends