Arlington Avenue

This article is about the Birmingham street. For the street in Bessemer see Arlington Avenue Bessemer.

Arlington Avenue is a street in Birmingham's Red Mountain community which connects Highland Avenue in the Five Points South neighborhood through Brown's Gap on Red Mountain to Key Circle.

Along most of its 2 1/2-mile length it forms the border between the Redmont Park neighborhood to the south and the Highland Park neighborhood to the north. The street forms part of the boundary of the Milner Heights Historic District.

Notable addresses

• street begins at Highland Avenue
  • north side:
    • 2200: BancorpSouth, former location of Birmingham Police Department South Precinct
  • south side:
    • 2201: The Highland Building, Methvin, Terrell, Yancey, Stephens & Miller attorneys, former location of Westover Apartments (1946), Glenn G. Lamar Agency insurance / Eric Harris appraiser (1957)

• Elton B. Stephens Expressway passes overhead
  • north side:
    • 2216: former location of G. C. Oliver residence (1910), H. A. Porterfield (1925), Loretta McMullin electrolysis (1935), Jessie Hall (1946)
    • 2218: former location of Arlington Arms Apartments (1957)
    • 2222–2236: 2222 building (built as the Bayer Properties building), former location of Bayer Properties (-2020), Birmingham Holocaust Education Center, Southside Development Company
      • 2224: former location of C. C. Heidt residence (1910), Kate Heidt (1925–1935), Martha Golden (1946)
      • 2228: former location of A. A. Coleman residence (1910), C. S. Marable (1925), Brice Apartments (1935–1957)
      • 2230: former location of H. J. Copeland residence (1910), Howell Jones (1925), George Shadoin (1935), Margaret Butler (1946), Robert Glass (1957)
  • south side:
    • 2217: former location of Walker Percy residence (built 1901), L. P. Percy (1925), William Byrd (1935)
    • 2219: former location of G. M. Williams residence (1910), R. B. Smyer (1925), Andrew Brown (1935), Tavel Grabove (1946–1957)
    • 2225-2235: Arlington Building (built 1950s)
      • 2223: former location of Louis Schulhoefer residence (1910–1935), Waltern Dryer (1946), Gaston Grabove (1957)
      • 2225: former location of G. T. Brazelton residence (1910), Abraham Lipsitz (1925), Tavel Grabove (1935), Lucius Waldrop (1946)
      • 2231: former location of R. Y. Jones residence (1910–1925), Anna Jones (1935), Mrs Gus Colvin (1946)
      • 2233: former location of William Hood residence (1910), Mrs L. Anderson (1925), Frederick Bishop / Milton Drennen Jr / Reba Sharp nurse (1935)

• 22nd Street South intersects (south only), formerly Maplewood Street
  • north side:
    • 2240: former location of B. M. Jacobs residence (1910), Bertha Jacobs (1925–1946)
    • 2242: Mayfair Condominiums, former location of P. J. Garland residence (1910), Mrs R. L. Walter (1925), Mayfair Apartments (1935–1957)
    • 2248: former location of H. S. Matthews residence (1910), J. Fritz Thompson (1925–1935), Hiram Elliot / William Lacey (1946), Mattie Lawes (1957)
    • 2320: Jaffe, Hanle, Whisonant & Knight attorneys, former location of E. B. McCrery residence (1910), D. H. Marbury (1925), Lilybec Cobb (1946), Sara Cobb (1957)
    • 2330: former location of J. E. Russell residence (1910)
  • south side:
    • 2301: 3-story office building
    • 2305: 2-story office building
    • 2315: former location of M. J. Gregg residence (1910), apartment building (1935–1957)
      • Apt 3: James Blevins sound equipment (1946)
    • 2317: Edmund Penruddocke residence (built 1906), Isabelle Penruddocke (1925), Nona Penruddocke (1935), I. Norvelle Penruddocke (1946–1957), Advent House

• 23rd Street South intersects, formerly Maiden Lane
  • north side:
    • 2400: former location of W. D. Arant / S. C. Ebbert (1925), James Taliaferro / Joseph G. Riley (1946), Herbert Burgess (1957)
    • 2410: former location of Arlington Court Apartments (1925–1957)
    • 2418: former location of Charles Aycock residence (1935–1946), Albert Wagner / Abraham Tritt (1957)
    • 2420: former location of Walter C. Jones residence (1925–1935), Paul Shropshire (1946–1957)
    • 2424: former location of P. P. Daugette residence (1925), Thomas Powell (1935), Charles McCamy (1946), Charles Satcher (1957)
    • 2428: former location of Mrs E. L. Potts residence (1925), Newton Guice (1935), Berta Pollock (1946–1957)
  • south side:
    • 2401: former location of vacant residence (1925), The Maiden View apartments (1935–1957)
    • 2405: former location of Abbie Robert residence (1925), George Holmes (1946), Walter Andrews Jr (1957)
    • 2407: former location of Herman Schneider residence (1935), Arnold Regal (1946–1957)
    • 2409: former location of C. R. Estes residence (1925), David M. Jones (1946), Jules Smedley (1957)
    • 2419: former location of Abraham Mesch rabbi (1957)
    • 2513: former location of John Farley residence (1925–1946), Charles O. Jones (1957)

• Arlington Crescent intersects (south only)
  • north side:
    • 2600–2640: Arlington Crest
      • 2600: former location of John Durr Jr / John Zehmer residence (1935), Lewis Crouch (1946), Eugene Wright / Fred Goff (1957)
      • 2604: former location of William Penhallegon residence (1935–1946), Harry Wheeler (1957)
  • south side:
    • 2615: former location of Aubrey Kidd residence (1925–1935), Guy Morgan (1946), Frank Kiss (1957)
    • 2619: former location of R. A. Smallman residence (1925), Robert Seay (1946), Sam Shepherd Jr (1957)
    • 2621: Crow's Nest apartments, former location of F. W. Miller residence (1925), William Hogue (1935), Joseph Embry (1946), Luther Clark (1957)
    • 2635: Arlington Terrace apartments (built 2014), former location of H. H. Cobb residence (1925), Arthur Long (1935–1957)

• Smolian Place intersects (north only)

• 16th Avenue South intersects (south only)

• street ends at Key Circle