Hillcrest Golf & Country Club

The Hillcrest Golf and Country Club was a 92-acre golf course and private country club located off of Oxmoor Road in Homewood, on the present site of the Palisades shopping center.

The country club was founded in 1883, serving Birmingham's Reform Jewish community, predominantly those of German descent. Its 9-hole golf course opened in 1920.

In 1957 the club commissioned architect Lawrence Whitten to design a new clubhouse which would accommodate 250 people, and assessed each member $1,000, which was to be held in trust and returned if the proposed new building and its furnishings could not be secured for less than $300,000.

It merged in 1968 with the newer Conservative (East European) Jewish Fairmont Country Club to become the Pinetree Country Club.

The land was also the former site of the Zamora Shrine Temple before it became the present day shopping center.

Golf course demolition

All photographs are from 1986.

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  Looking southeast

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  Looking southeast

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  Looking southwest

References

• Summe, Sheryl Spradling. (2001). Homewood: The Life of a City. Homewood, AL: Friends of the Homewood Public Library.
• Brook, Lawrence (2008) "Birmingham, Alabama" in Encyclopedia Judaica. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise - accessed December 21, 2018