Potter Building
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The Potter Building was an office and retail building located at 1909-1917 1st Avenue North in downtown Birmingham.
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
- 1-2: Caron 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 (1925-1926)
- 11: W. T. Cox Jr/E. H. Newsome (1926)
- 14: Western Union Telegraph Co. (1926)
- 15: R. C. Stein (1926)
- 28: Armstrong-Smith Co. (1926)
- 3rd floor: Birmingham Business College (1888-1902), Wheeler Business College (1902-1926), David Hancock (1926)
- William Nevins, wholesale agent (1888)
- Birmingham Athletic Club (1889-1892)
- Southern Iron Committee (1900)
- Percy & Grubb attorneys (1902)
- H. R. Alexander, woodworking plant owner (1907)
- Home Furniture Pattern Co. (1910)
- Britling Cafeteria No. 1 (1913-1964)
- Artists Recording Company (1956-1960s)