Potter Building

The Potter Building was an office and retail building located at 1909-1917 1st Avenue North in downtown Birmingham. It was built in the 1880s.

The building housed the Wheeler Business College when it was established in 1888 and the Birmingham Athletic Club when it was founded a year later. In 1913 A. W. B. Johnson. opened the first Britling Cafeteria on the ground floor. That restaurant remained open until 1964.

Tenants

• Ground floor: Britling Cafeteria No. 1 (1913-1964)
• 1–8: Western Union Telegraph Co. traffic department (1940)
  • 1–2: Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (1926)
• 4: Western Union Telegraph Co. service department (1926)
• 9: Walter Carter / R. H. Elliott / A. R. Wilson (1926)
• 10-12: Paul Rothpletz bookbinder (1925-1940)
• 11–14: Western Union Telegraph Co. traffic department (1940)
  • 11: W. T. Cox Jr / E. H. Newsome (1926)
  • 14: Western Union Telegraph Co. (1926)
• 15: R. C. Stein (1926)
• 16: Osce Robert's Stamp & Printing Co. (1926–1940)
• 28: Armstrong-Smith Co. (1926)
• 3rd floor: Birmingham Business College (1888-1902), Wheeler Business College (1902-1940), David Hancock (1926)

• Alabama Car Service Association (1896)
• H. R. Alexander, woodworking plant owner (1907)
• American Coal & Coke Co. (1896)
• Artists Recording Company (1956-1960s)
• Benners & Benners (1896)
• Birmingham Athletic Club (1889-1892)
• Birmingham Underwriters Agency (1896)
• Carmichael & Thach (1896)
• Frank Demere (1896)
• N. B. Feagin (1896)
• W. H. Graves (1896)
• W. I. Grubb attorney (1896)
• Home Furniture Pattern Co. (1910)
• E. T. Hucheson (1896)
• John M. Martin (1896)
• Samuel Mullen (1896)
• William Nevins, wholesale agent (1888)
• Walker Percy attorney (1896)
• Percy & Grubb attorneys (1902)
• Z. T. Rudolph (1896)
• Southern Iron Commission (1896-1900)
• Southern Mutual Fire Insurance Co. (1896)
• M. Weil & Bro. (1886-1918)
• J. W. Worthington & Co. (1896)