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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. | 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 [[Donald Kahn]]. | 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]]. Kahb 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]]. | ||
==References== | ==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 | ||
==External links== | |||
* "[http://www.thehotelhighland.com/history.htm History of the Hotel Highland and Pickwick Hotel and Suites, Birmingham]" at thehotelhighland.com | |||
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places]] | [[Category:National Register of Historic Places]] | ||
Revision as of 00:02, 18 July 2008
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. Kahb 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.
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
External links
- "History of the Hotel Highland and Pickwick Hotel and Suites, Birmingham" at thehotelhighland.com