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==== [[22nd Street North|22nd Street]] intersection====
==== [[22nd Street North|22nd Street]] intersection====
* North side:
* north side:
** 2200-2206: [[Goodall-Brown building]] (built 1905) for the [[Goodall-Brown Dry Goods Co.]]), [[Goodall-Brown Lofts]], former site of the [[Caldwell Hotel]] (1889-1894)
** 2200-2206: [[Goodall-Brown building]] (built 1905) for the [[Goodall-Brown Dry Goods Co.]]), [[Goodall-Brown Lofts]], former site of the [[Caldwell Hotel]] (1889-1894)
*** 2200: [[The Wine Loft]]
*** 2200: [[The Wine Loft]]
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*** 2226: former location of [[Europa]]
*** 2226: former location of [[Europa]]
** 2228-2230: [[Patrick B. Odum Family Dentistry]] (2007-), former location of [[Standard Oil]] gas station (1926)
** 2228-2230: [[Patrick B. Odum Family Dentistry]] (2007-), former location of [[Standard Oil]] gas station (1926)
* South side:
* south side:
** 2201-2203: [[Transportation Building]] (built 1925 as the [[Southern Railway Building]])
** 2201-2203: [[Transportation Building]] (built 1925 as the [[Southern Railway Building]])
*** 2201: former location of [[Southern Railway]] / [[Alabama Great Southern Railroad]] superintendent's offices (1904)
*** 2201: former location of [[Southern Railway]] / [[Alabama Great Southern Railroad]] superintendent's offices (1904)
** 2205: former location of [[T. W. Jones]] (1926)
** 2205: former location of [[T. W. Jones]] (1926)
** 2207: former location of [[Auto Storage Tire & Battery Co.]] (1926)
** 2207: former location of [[Auto Storage Tire & Battery Co.]] (1926)
** 2209-2215 [[Mercantile on Morris]] (built 2020)
** 2209-2215 [[Mercantile on Morris]] (redeveloped 2020)
*** 2209: former location of [[Ward Auto Supply Co.]] (1926), [[Slater Sales]] The [[Fanaei Building]] (2007-)
*** 2209–2211: [[Liberty Overalls Building]], called the [[Fanaei Building]] (2007-)
*** 2211: former location of [[Liberty Overall Co.]] (1926)
**** 2209: former location of [[Ward Auto Supply Co.]] (1926), [[Slater Sales]]
**** 2211: former location of [[Liberty Overall Co.]] (1926)
*** 2213: former location of [[Steve Watson Restaurant]], [[W. G. Patterson Cigar Company|Patterson Cigar Store]] (1923), [[Birmingham Cash & Carry Cigar & Tobacco Co.]] (1926), [[Easy Street]] (2007)
*** 2213: former location of [[Steve Watson Restaurant]], [[W. G. Patterson Cigar Company|Patterson Cigar Store]] (1923), [[Birmingham Cash & Carry Cigar & Tobacco Co.]] (1926), [[Easy Street]] (2007)
*** 2215: former location of [[Krewe on First]] bar, [[Jazzy's]] (2017)
*** 2215: former location of [[Krewe on First]] bar, [[Jazzy's]] (2017)
** 2217: former location of [[Birmingham Wholesale Co.]] (1926)
*** 2217: former location of [[Birmingham Wholesale Co.]] (1926)
** 2219-2227: former location of [[Crawford's Auto Shop]] (1926)
** 2219-2227: former location of [[Crawford's Auto Shop]] (1926)
*** 2223: [[Lindsey Office Furnishings]]
*** 2223–2225: [[Lindsey Office Furnishings]]
** 2229: former location of [[Winn-Snider Cigar Co.]] (1926)
** 2229–2231: parking lot
** 2231: former location of [[Evans Bros.]] (1904), [[W. G. Patterson Cigar Company]] (1920s)
*** 2229: former location of [[Winn-Snider Cigar Co.]] (1926)
*** 2231: former location of [[Evans Bros.]] (1904), [[W. G. Patterson Cigar Company]] (1920s)


====[[23rd Street North|23rd Street]] intersection====
====[[23rd Street North|23rd Street]] intersection====

Revision as of 17:05, 17 July 2020

1st Avenue North (Downtown) is the section of 1st Avenue North running through downtown Birmingham's Fountain Heights and Central City neighborhoods, between 13th and 26th Streets. The street is also part of U.S. Highway 11.

In the downtown area, 1st Avenue North has a 100-foot right of way, 20 feet wider than the typical street. It carries two lanes of traffic in each direction with a central turn lane and parallel parking at each curb.

The curbstones installed in the early 20th century on 1st Avenue North between 18th and 21st Streets were quarried in Lane Park. The first electric "thoroughfare lighting" was installed on 1st Avenue North on poles spaced 200 feet apart. The lighting was upgraded with new, taller poles on 100-foot spacings between 32nd and 85th Streets under the city's 1945 contract with the Birmingham Electric Company.

During the 1980s rows of Pin oak trees were installed along 1st Avenue North between 14th and 26th Streets as part of the city's urban tree planting project, guided by Nimrod Long & Associates.

Locations

1st Avenue North continues west through Smithfield to Center Street, continuing as Cotton Avenue Southwest

Fountain Heights

11th Street intersection

12th Street intersection

13th Street intersection

14th Street intersection

15th Street intersection (closed)

16th Street intersection

17th Street intersection

18th Street intersection

The Pandora Cafeteria at 1804-1806 1st Avenue North (1927-1936)

Central City neighborhood

19th Street intersection

1890s view looking east down 1st Avenue, possibly from the Morris Block.

20th Street intersection: Heaviest Corner on Earth

21st Street intersection (Rainbow Viaduct)

22nd Street intersection

23rd Street intersection

24th Street intersection

25th Street intersection

References