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===[[University Boulevard]] (formerly [[8th Avenue South]])===
===[[University Boulevard]] (formerly [[8th Avenue South]])===
* West side
* west side:
** 800-810 [[Doubletree Hotel Birmingham]] (formerly [[Doubletree Hotel Birmingham|Kahler Plaza Hotel]], [[Doubletree Hotel Birmingham|Radisson Hotel]]), former site of [[University of Alabama Girl's Dormitory]], [[UAB Men's Dormitory]]
** 800-824: former location of [[Medical College of Alabama]] dormitories
*** 800: former location of [[J Gatsby's]] restaurant
*** 800-810 [[Doubletree Hotel Birmingham]] (built 1973 as [[Doubletree Hotel Birmingham|Kahler Plaza Hotel]]), former site of [[University of Alabama Girl's Dormitory]] (1949), [[UAB Men's Dormitory]]
*** 808: [[J. Reiss Custom Clothier]], inside hotel
**** 800: former location of [[J Gatsby's]] restaurant
** 812-814: former location of [[Chi Tau Chapter of Psi Omega]] (1964-1970)
**** 808: [[J. Reiss Custom Clothier]], inside hotel, former location of [[Hylena Rickeman]] (1949)
** 816-822: former location of [[University of Alabama Medical School Dormitory]] (1964)
*** 812-814: former location of apartment building (1949), [[Chi Tau Chapter of Psi Omega]] (1964-1970)
** 822-824: former location of [[The Dental Dormitory]] (1964)
*** 816-822: former location of [[University of Alabama Medical School]] dormitory (-1964)
** 826-828: former location of [[Sigma Nu]] fraternity house (1964)
*** 820-824: former location of [[Medical College of Alabama]] dormitories (1949)
* East side
*** 822-824: former location of [[The Dental Dormitory]] (1949-1964)
** 801-803: former location of [[Grayson's Spinning Wheel]] ice cream (1941), [[Coggin's Ice Cream]] (1970)
** 826-828: former location of [[Sigma Nu]] fraternity house (1949-1964)
*** 801: [[Wings Around the Clock]], former location of [[New York Bagel Cafe]] (1996-2006), [[Zoes (Southside)|Zoes]], [[Starbucks Coffee]], [[Andrew's Sandwich Shop]] (- 1993)
*** 826: former location of [[John Bruhn]] (1949)
 
* east side:
** 801-803: former location of [[Grayson's Spinning Wheel]] / [[Grayson's Delicious Ice Cream]] (1941-1949), [[Coggin's Ice Cream]] (1970)
*** 801: [[Wings Around the Clock]], former location of [[Zoes (Southside)|Zoes]], [[Andrew's Sandwich Shop]] (- 1993), [[New York Bagel Cafe]] (1996-2005), [[Starbucks Coffee]] (2005-2008)
*** 803: [[Subway]] sandwich shop
*** 803: [[Subway]] sandwich shop
** 805: former location of [[Chapman Recording Co.]] (1941), [[Chapman Radio & Television Co.]] / [[Radio Sales & Service Co.]] (1941-1950), [[Chapman Record Bar]] (1950)
** 805: former location of [[Chapman Recording Co.]] (1941), [[Chapman Radio & Television Co.]] / [[Radio Sales & Service Co.]] (1941-1950), [[Chapman Record Bar]] (1949-1950)
** 807: [[Baptist Building]], former location of [[Dewberry Engraving]] (1941-1950), offices of [[Birmingham Baptist Association]], [[Birmingham Baptist Women's Missionary Union]], ''[[The Alabama Baptist]]'' newspaper, [[Albie Smith]] architect, [[Weir & Shannon]] attorneys, and [[National Electrical Contractors Association]] (1964-1970)
** 807: [[Baptist Building]], former location of [[Dewberry Engraving]] (1941-1950), [[National Engraving Co.]] / [[Southern Paper Co.]] / [[Dewberry Stationery Co.]] (1949), offices of [[Birmingham Baptist Association]], [[Birmingham Baptist Women's Missionary Union]], ''[[The Alabama Baptist]]'' newspaper, [[Albie Smith]] architect, [[Weir & Shannon]] attorneys, and [[National Electrical Contractors Association]] (1964-1970)
** 811: [[Medical Alumni Building]] (built 1936), [[Rose Law Firm]], offices of [[Jefferson Health Foundation]], [[Jefferson Medical Group]] and other physicians, office of [[R. C. Green]], later [[Brown-Service Funeral Home]] (1941), [[Birmingham Medical & Surgical Clinic]] (1970)
** 811: [[Medical Alumni Building]] (built 1936), [[Rose Law Firm]], offices of [[Jefferson Health Foundation]], [[Jefferson Medical Group]] and other physicians, office of [[R. C. Green]], later [[Brown-Service Funeral Home]] (1941), [[Birmingham Medical & Surgical Clinic]] (1949-1970)
** 815-831:  
** 815-831:  
*** 815: former location of [[James Van Hoose residence]] (1896), [[Exclusive Furniture Shop]] (1922-1926), [[Brown-Service Funeral Company]] funeral home (1935), [[Ridout's Funeral Home]] (1941)
*** 815: former location of [[James Van Hoose residence]] (1896), [[Exclusive Furniture Shop]] (1922-1926), [[Brown-Service Funeral Company]] funeral home (1935), [[Ridout's Brown-Service]] mortuary (1941-1949)
*** 821: [[Southside Residence Inn]] (built 2009), former site of [[James Van Hoose residence]] (built 1881, demolished 1961), [[Birmingham Travelodge]] (built 1964), [[Passport Inn]], [[Royal Inn]] (demolished 2008)
*** 821: [[Southside Residence Inn]] (built 2009), former site of [[James Van Hoose residence]] (built 1881, demolished 1961), [[Birmingham Travelodge]] (built 1964), [[Passport Inn]], [[Royal Inn]] (demolished 2008)



Revision as of 10:58, 23 November 2019

20th Street South in October 1962

20th Street South is a north-south street in midtown and southside Birmingham. 20th Street begins at the southern end of 20th Street North at the Railroad Reservation. From there it first crosses Powell Avenue, and then continues through Southside for sixteen blocks to where it intersects with Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard South.

The street runs through the UAB Medical Center, and from 10th Avenue South to Highland Avenue, it is the main road through Five Points South, a major restaurant and entertainment hub of the city.

During the 1980s rows of Willow oak trees were installed along 20th Street South as part of the city's urban tree planting project, guided by Nimrod Long & Associates.

Notable Locations (north to south)

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 20th Street South category.

Railroad Reservation/20th Street underpass

road continues north as 20th Street North

Powell Avenue

The Alagasco Building in 2010

former Alabama Great Southern Railroad crossing

Moore-Handley Hardware Co. in 1904

1st Avenue South (formerly Avenue A) / Rotary Trail

2nd Avenue South

c. 1963 view looking north up 20th Street toward downtown

3rd Avenue South

4th Avenue South

1977 advertisement for "The Strip"
start of UAB campus

5th Avenue South

6th Avenue South

Hillman Hospital, c. 1929

7th Avenue South

University Boulevard (formerly 8th Avenue South)

8th Court South (east) / 9th Avenue South (west)

10th Avenue South intersection

Five Points South begins

Magnolia Avenue

11th Avenue South

12th Avenue South/Highland Avenue

13th Avenue South

14th Avenue South

15th Avenue South

16th Avenue South


U. S. Highway 31 in Birmingham
North side South side
Current route Carraway Blvd · Elton B. Stephens Expressway Elton B. Stephens Expressway
Previous routes 8th Avenue N · 24th Street N 24th Street S · 7th Avenue S · 20th Street S · 21st Street S

References

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