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* [[19th Street North]] intersection
* [[19th Street North]] intersection
** North side
** North side
*** 1912: former location of [[Haverty Furniture]]
*** 1900: former location of [[Trailways Bus Depot]] (site of [[Freedom Rides]] attack on [[May 14]], [[1961]])
*** 1914-16: former location of [[Louise Wooster]]'s brothel
*** 1904: former location of [[Bernardine Seay Accordion Center]] (1964)
**** 1914: [[Forbes Building]], former location of [[Alabama Barber College]]
*** 1906: former location of [[Alabama Music Center]] (1964)
**** 1916: former location of [[Alabama Supply Co.]]
*** 1910: former location of [[City Gun & Key]] (1964)
*** 1920: formerly [[Horton & Biddle Cycle Company]] and [[Wuxtry]]
*** 1912: former location of [[Haverty Furniture]], [[Mutual Finance & Thrift]] (1964)
*** 1924: formerly [[Cane Break Supper Club]] and [[Grundy's Music Room]]
*** 1914-1916: former location of [[Louise Wooster]]'s brothel
*** 1930: [[Clark Building]]
**** 1914: [[Forbes Building]], former location of [[Forbes Furniture Co.]] & [[E. E. Forbes & Sons Piano Co.]] (1912-1996), [[Alabama Barber College]]
**** 1916: former location of [[Alabama Supply Co.]], [[Samuel E. Maples Auto Parking]] (1964)
*** 1918: former location of [[Lassetter & Co.]] warehouse
*** 1920: former location of [[Horton & Biddle Cycle Company]] (1920s), [[Williams Music House]] (1964), [[Wuxtry]] (1980s)
**** 1920½: former location of [[Childress Printing Co.]] (1964)
*** 1922: former location of [[Austin Music Co.]] (1964)
*** 1924: former location of [[Birmingham Club for Young Executives & Professionals]] (1964), [[Cane Break Supper Club]] (late 1960s) and [[Grundy's Music Room]] (1980-1992)
*** 1926-1930: [[Clark Building]]
**** 1930: former location of [[Schwobilt Clothing]] (1964)
 
** South side ([[Block 73]])
** South side ([[Block 73]])
*** 1901: surface parking. former site of [[Market House]], [[First Birmingham City Hall|first]] and [[Birmingham City Hall (1901)|second]] Birmingham City Halls
*** 1901: surface parking. former site of [[Market House]], [[First Birmingham City Hall|first]] and [[Birmingham City Hall (1901)|second]] Birmingham City Halls
*** 1915: [[Gus's Hot Dogs]], "[[Reading Room]]" mural by [[Patricia Martin]] on east side of building
*** 1907: former location of [[City Hall Shoe Rebuilders]] (1964)
*** 1917: parking lot, former location of [[Oliver Chalifoux]]'s music store
*** 1909: former location of [[Alabama Reweaving Co.]] (1964)
*** 1911: former location of [[Community Finance & Thrift]] & [[Community Acceptance Co.]] (1964)
*** 1913: former location of [[City Parking Deck]]
*** 1915: [[Gus's Hot Dogs]], "[[Reading Room]]" mural by [[Patricia Martin]] on east side of building, former location of [[Chesterfield Co.]] loans (1964)
*** 1917: parking lot, former location of [[Oliver Chalifoux]]'s music store, [[Meadows Shoe Store]] (1964)
*** 1919: former location of [[E-Z Finance Co.]] (1964)
*** 1927: parking lot, former location of [[Tom's Steak House]]
*** 1927: parking lot, former location of [[Tom's Steak House]]
*** 1930: parking lot, former location of [[Southern Hotel|Linville]]/[[Southern Hotel]], [[Norton's Drug Store]], [[Lane's Drug Store]] and [[Hardy Shoe Store]]
*** 1931: parking lot, former location of [[Southern Hotel|Linville]]/[[Southern Hotel]], [[Norton's Drug Store]], [[Lane's Drug Store]] and [[Hardy Shoe Store]], [[Shirley & Warr Optical]] (1964)
 
* [[20th Street North]] intersection
* [[20th Street North]] intersection
** 2000: [[Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 3]]
** 2000: [[Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 3]]

Revision as of 23:17, 24 February 2015

Fourth Avenue North is an east-west street running through downtown Birmingham. It runs from Center Street in the west to 24th Street North in the east. From 9th to 24th Streets, the three- to four-lane street is one way westbound.

The road appears again as a two-lane residential street between Interstate 59 and Wahouma Park, west of 72nd Street. It is interrupted by the interstate between 75th and 77th Streets, but then continues from 77th to 88th Place, running between Lynn Park and East Lake Park.

Fourth Avenue runs through a few historic districts, including its own 4th Avenue Historic District (from 16th to 19th Street), the Civil Rights District, and the Loft District. In addition, the buildings at 1914, 1917, 1919, and 1930 are part of the Downtown Birmingham Retail and Theatre Historic District.

History

Fourth Avenue originally extended east to 26th Street North, but when the Birmingham Post Office was constructed in the early 1970s, it occupied the space where the street had run.

4th Avenue North was converted from two-way to one-way (westbound) traffic was from 24th Street North to 9th Street North in 1973 by the Alabama Department of Transportation's TOPICS (Traffic Operations Program to Increase Capacity and Safety) program.

Notable locations

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 4th Avenue North category.

Smithfield neighborhood

Fountain Heights

The New Deal Barber Shop at 1701 4th Avenue North
The Fox Building

Central City

1900 block of 4th Avenue North
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