Exchange Bank Building

Exchange Bank Building in December 2009.

The Exchange Bank Building was constructed on 20th Street South and 10th Avenue South in 1947 for the Exchange Bank of Birmingham. The stripped-classicist modern concrete building was the first banking office in the city to have a drive-up window and its own parking lot. When it was built, the north and south wings of the building housed the Five Points Shoe Hospital and a Mary Ball Candies store, respectively.

The Exchange Bank merged with the Security Commercial Bank in 1957 to form the Exchange-Security Bank. The bank was merged into the First National Bank of Birmingham in 1971 and changed names to AmSouth Bank in 1983. AmSouth merged into Regions Bank in 2006.