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[[Image:Hotel Highland.jpg|right|thumb|275px|As the [[Hotel Highland]] in January 2009.]]
{{About|an existing building|the unbuilt building|Medical Arts Building (7th Avenue South)}}
[[Image:Hotel Highland.jpg|right|thumb|300px|As the [[Hotel Highland]] in January 2009.]]
The '''Medical Arts Building''' or '''Medical Arts Tower''' is an 8-story building built at 1023 [[20th Street South]] in [[1931]] as medical offices. It was developed by the [[Kamram Grotto]], a fraternal order made up of Freemasons who also built the nearby [[Pickwick Club]] in the same year. The architect was [[Charles H. McCauley]], who studied similar developments in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville and St Louis before completing the design. Construction was completed in just six months.
The '''Medical Arts Building''' or '''Medical Arts Tower''' is an 8-story building built at 1023 [[20th Street South]] in [[1931]] as medical offices. It was developed by the [[Kamram Grotto]], a fraternal order made up of Freemasons who also built the nearby [[Pickwick Club]] in the same year. The architect was [[Charles H. McCauley]], who studied similar developments in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville and St Louis before completing the design. Construction was completed in just six months.


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In the 1980s the building was converted into the [[Pickwick Hotel]] by developer [[Donald Kahn]]. [[Kidd/Plosser/Sprague]] designed the renovations which were carried out by [[Brasfield & Gorrie]]. Kahn also redeveloped the area behind the hotel into a retail and restaurant district called [[Pickwick Place]], constructing a four-story parking deck to serve both. In [[2007]] the hotel was fully renovated by Long & Cox Properties, which renamed it the [[Hotel Highland]].
In the 1980s the building was converted into the [[Pickwick Hotel]] by developer [[Donald Kahn]]. [[Kidd/Plosser/Sprague]] designed the renovations which were carried out by [[Brasfield & Gorrie]]. Kahn also redeveloped the area behind the hotel into a retail and restaurant district called [[Pickwick Place]], constructing a four-story parking deck to serve both. In [[2007]] the hotel was fully renovated by Long & Cox Properties, which renamed it the [[Hotel Highland]].
==Tenants==
* basement
** [[Medical Arts Brace Shop]] (1946)
** [[Medical Arts Garage]] (1946)
* lobby
** [[Southeastern Optical Co.]] (1946)
* 2nd floor
** 201–212: [[Meadows & Kesmodel]] physicians (1946)
** 214–222: [[Sherrill & Conwell]] physicians (1946)
* 3rd floor
** 301–305: [[William Rosser]] physician (1946)
** 306–310: [[Harry Bradford]] / [[Patton Bradford]] dentists (1946)
** 311-314: [[Jerome Meyer]] physician (1946)
** 315–317: [[Robert Cothran]] physician (1946)
** 318: [[Brown Linder]] physician (1946)
** 322: [[Virgil Heard]] dentist (1946)
* 4th floor
** 402–407: [[Thomas Magruder]] / [[Frank Wilson]] physicians (1946)
** 408–409: [[James Ferry]] physician (1946)
** 410–412: [[Vivian Cooper]] dentist (1946)
** 414-417: [[Charles King]] physician (1946)
** 418–420: [[D. Lawson Massey]] dentist (1946)
** 421–422: [[Ralph Griffin]] dentist (1946)
* 5th floor
** 501–505: [[Gilbert Fisher]] physician (1946)
** 506–508: [[Jaratt Robertson]] physician (1946)
** 510–512: [[Frank Kay]] physician (1946)
** 514–517: [[S. Sellers Underwood]] physician (1946)
** 518–522: [[William Beddow]] physician (1946)
* 6th floor
** 601–604: [[Levert Gravlee]] / [[James Gravlee]] dentists (1946)
** 605–608: [[Arthur Harris]] physician (1946)
** 609–612: [[Claude Ford]] / [[Bert Wiesel]] physicians (1946)
** 614–622: [[Joseph Hirsh]] physician (1946)
* 7th floor
** 701–711: [[Scott, McQuiddy & Collins]] physicians (1946)
** 712–728: [[Belford Lester]] / [[H. B. Morris]] physicians (1946)
* 8th floor
** 801–802: [[John Hillhouse]] physician (1946)
** 803–805: [[Joseph Cunningham]] physician (1946)
** 806–809: [[Frank Clements]] physician (1946)
** 810–812: [[Edward McConnell]] physician (1946)
** 814: [[Cabot Lull]] physician (1946)
** 815–822: [[James Mason]] / [[James Mason Jr]] physicians (1946)
* 9th floor
** building office


==References==
==References==
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* "[http://www.thehotelhighland.com/history.htm History of the Hotel Highland and Pickwick Hotel and Suites, Birmingham]" at thehotelhighland.com
* "[http://www.thehotelhighland.com/history.htm History of the Hotel Highland and Pickwick Hotel and Suites, Birmingham]" at thehotelhighland.com


[[Category:Medical Arts Building|*]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham]]
[[Category:1931 buildings]]
[[Category:1931 buildings]]
[[Category:Medical office buildings]]
[[Category:Charles McCauley buildings]]
[[Category:Charles McCauley buildings]]
[[Category:20th Street South]]
[[Category:Five Points South]]

Latest revision as of 16:40, 10 February 2023

This article is about an existing building. For the unbuilt building, see Medical Arts Building (7th Avenue South).
As the Hotel Highland in January 2009.

The Medical Arts Building or Medical Arts Tower is an 8-story building built at 1023 20th Street South in 1931 as medical offices. It was developed by the Kamram Grotto, a fraternal order made up of Freemasons who also built the nearby Pickwick Club in the same year. The architect was Charles H. McCauley, who studied similar developments in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville and St Louis before completing the design. Construction was completed in just six months.

The brick-clad building has stone and terra-cotta ornaments as well as cast aluminum spandrels below the windows. The art-deco styling carries over into the elevator lobby where a star motif symbolizes the building's location at Five Points South. Originally the ground floor was occupied by an apothecary and other shops.

In the 1980s the building was converted into the Pickwick Hotel by developer Donald Kahn. Kidd/Plosser/Sprague designed the renovations which were carried out by Brasfield & Gorrie. Kahn also redeveloped the area behind the hotel into a retail and restaurant district called Pickwick Place, constructing a four-story parking deck to serve both. In 2007 the hotel was fully renovated by Long & Cox Properties, which renamed it the Hotel Highland.

Tenants

References

  • Burkhardt, Ann McQuorquodale and Alice Meriwether Bowsher (November 1982) "Town Within a City: The Five Points South Neighborhood 1880-1930." Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society. Vol. 7, Nos. 3-4

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