Jefferson Home Furniture Building

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The Jefferson Home Furniture Building is a 6-story commercial building located on Block 88 at 1716 2nd Avenue North.

The building, built in 1915, was the home of J. E. Cain Furniture by the 1920s. It became the home of the Joiner Furniture Co. in 1944, then of Duke Brothers Furniture in August 1945. It was renovated with a sheet-metal façade in the 1960s by Jefferson Home Furniture.

In 2004 Operation New Birmingham put the building on their 12 Most Wanted list of downtown buildings in need of renovation. In 2006, Jeremy Erdreich of Metropolitan LLC, the owner of the building, planned to create 23 condos (to be called Jefferson Lofts). That plan was not realized.

In 2014 the front windows were removed for replacement, and the project was approved for Alabama's "historic rehabilitation tax credit" program. The redevelopment stalled, however, and the property was sold in May 2016 to 2nd Avenue Partners LLC, a group headed by John Chapman, for $1.11 million.

In August 2018 Chapman submitted a proposal to the Birmingham Design Review Committee to renovate the Jefferson Home Furniture Building and the adjacent 3-story building into a 64,000 square-foot self-storage facility. The $3.5 million renovation, designed by KPS Group and dubbed Jefferson Storage, was completed in 2021.

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