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Revision as of 09:59, 19 April 2015
The Lincoln Life Building, later the Chamber of Commerce Building and Stallings Building, currently housing Jemison Flats, is a 7-story edifice on the southwest corner of 1st Avenue North and 19th Street. It was designed by architect William Leslie Welton and constructed in 1909 on the former site of the Chalifoux Building.
It originally housed the Birmingham offices of the Lincoln Life Insurance Company, but was soon taken over by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
Tenants
- Ground floor:
- Lincoln Life Barber Shop (1929)
- Whittington Drug Co. (1929)
- Metcalf Realty Co. (1929)
- Matthews Electric Co. (1937)
- Hand Knitting Shop (1937)
- 2nd floor:
- Alverson-Draughon College (1964)
- Speedwriting Institute (1964)
- Nancy Taylor Charm & Modeling Studio (1964)
- 3rd floor:
- 301-302: American Employment Service (1964)
- 303-305: Vulcan Life & Acccident Insurance Co. (1964)
- 306-307: Alabama Realty Co. & Railford Ellis Co. (1964)
- 308: Walker Realty Co. and Walker Agency Inc. (1964)
- 311: Alverson-Draughon College president's office (1964)
- 314-315: Southeastern Jewelers & Engravers (1964)
- 317: Durden Dental Laboratory (1964)
- 319-326: United Steel Workers of American, District 36 (1964)
- 4th floor
- 401: Educational Acceptance Corp. collections (1964)
- 402: R. Alvin Taylor optometrist (1964)
- 404-405: C. W. Hinkle & Associates accountants (1964)
- 408-412: American Employment Service (1964)
- 414-418: Wilmore, Hudson & Luke structural engineers (1964)
- 423: Birmingham Traffic Association (1964)
- 5th floor
- 503-505: J. M. Keel & Associates surveyors (1964)
- 508: Gulf American Land Corporation (1964)
- 514: Roy H. Zachry & Wilbur Hart, accountants (1964)
- 519: Alabama Building Material Exchange Inc. (1964)
- 521-522: Key Personnel Service (1964)
- 6th floor
- 601: Greer Shop Training trade school (1964)
- 603-607: Manly & Manly attorneys (1964)
- 610: Nancy Taylor Charm & Modeling Studio overflow (1964)
- 618-621: Muscular Dystrophy Association of Alabama (1964)
- 623-626: Southern Cafeteria Co. (1964)
- 7th floor
- 701-708: Greer, Holmquist & Chambers architects (1964)
- 710: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1964)
- 714-716: Standard Optical Co. (1964)
- 717: Roland J. Hagood attorney (1964)
- 718: O'Hanlon Reports inspection bureau (1964)
- 719: Continental Casualty Co. (1964)
- T. M. Faris, architect
- George Gehred, architect
- J. C. Halstead, architect
- Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
- Birmingham Magazine Publishing Company
- Harris Transfer Company
- Kamram Grotto