Caldwell Building

This article is about the building on Morris Avenue & 20th Street. For the building at 2016 Morris Avenue, see Caldwell Printing Works. For the building at 2015-2017 1st Avenue North, see Caldwell-Milner Building.

The Caldwell Building was a two-story commercial building located a 3-7 20th Street North, between the Railroad Reservation and Morris Avenue, on the present site of the John Hand Building parking deck.

The building was divided into three stores on the ground floor, with an entrance and stairway to the upper floor between the northern two stores and an outside stair serving the southern bay. The front wall extended 4 feet above the roof. A covered passage at the rear of the building separated it from an adjacent tin shop.

The building was demolished before 1964, when the site was used as a parking lot for the First National Bank of Birmingham.

Tenants

• Ground floor:
  • 3: former location of paints, oils & building materials (1885), Chenoweth, Estes & Horan general household goods (1887), wholesale grocery (1891), Ingram Lithia Water Co. (1899), G. W. Leggett barber (1899-1905), Mathews Electric Supply Co. (1914), Inman Packaging Co. (1922)
  • 5: former location of wholesale grocer (1885), C. M. Lynch warehouse (1887), refrigerated meat warehouse (1891), Armour Packing Co. (1899-1905), Morris Avenue Fruit Store (1922), G. D. Ganoudes (1926), Quality Cafe (c. 1929), United States Rubber Co. offices & auto accessories (1941)
  • 7: former location of flour & feed store (1885)
• Upper floor:
  • 3½: former location of hardware storage (1885), chemical laboratory (1891), C. T. Wallace (1905), Sander Packaging Co. / Walstrum Armature Works (1922)
  • 5½: former location of office / skating rink (1885), O. J. Dye attorney (1887), W. F. Schlichter cigar manufacturer (1899), Salvation Army hall (1922)
  • 7½: former location of Richardson & Allen Publishers (1885-1887), Alabama Christian Advocate (1887)