10th Avenue South
Tenth Avenue South (originally Alabama Street, Avenue J, Juniper Avenue, Summit Avenue and East Alabama Avenue) is an east-west corridor in Birmingham's Southside.
The main section stretches from 4th Street South in Glen Iris east through the UAB Campus, to 22nd Street South at the corner of Brother Bryan Park. The section between 10th and 11th Streets was originally Alabama Street.
10th Avenue South picks up again a block east as a continuation of Magnolia Avenue. It runs under the Elton B. Stephens Expressway and behind St Vincent's Medical Center, then continues two blocks to 30th Street South (a stretch formerly called Juniper Avenue).
On the east side of Highland Park, 10th Avenue South (formerly Summit Avenue) continues through Forest Park until it bends into Linwood Road. An unconnected stretch picks up at 52nd Street South in Crestwood, and turns to intersect Crestwood Boulevard between 57th and 58th Streets. In East Lake fragments of 10th Avenue South, formerly East Alabama Avenue can be found between 79th Street South and Glendale Drive, near the boundary of the Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve.
10th Avenue South between 19th and 21st Street forms the original northern boundary of the Five Points South Historic District. Between Highland Park and Linwood Road, the avenue is within the Forest Park Historic District.
The section of 10th Avenue South between 20th and 34th Streets suffered damage from the March 25, 1901 Birmingham tornado.
In August 2018 a section of the road from 8th Street South to 12th Street South was converted from 4-lane traffic to 2-lane traffic with the addition of bike lanes in the former right lanes. At each intersection and various driveways, bike lanes are painted green and feature symbols painted in white to alert drivers to the presence of cyclists. Future plans include extending the bike lanes from 12th Street South to 18th Street South.
Notable locations
- For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 10th Avenue South category.
Glen Iris neighborhood
- 16th Avenue South intersects (road begins)
- 5th Street South intersects, street crosses tributary of Holly Spring
- Single family homes
- 6th Street South intersects
- Single family homes
- 7th Street South intersects
- north side (Block 822):
- single family homes, former location of Birmingham City Crematory (1891)
- south side (Block 828):
- single family homes
- north side (Block 822):
- 8th Street South intersects
- 800: Gable Square, Gable Square BP gas station, formerly Gable Square Amoco Service Center
- 10th Street South intersects
- 1000: Epic School
- 1001: Gables at Glen Iris (former planned site of University Flats)
- 10th Place South intersection (south only)
- 11th Street South intersects (south only)
Five Points South neighborhood
- 11th Avenue South intersects (south only)
- 1150: UAB Collat School of Business
- 1154-1190: Spencer Honors House (2002-), former location of 2nd Presbyterian Church (built 1901, vacated 1963), New Hope Baptist Church (1964-1970), Alternative High School, UAB Ballet House (1970-), temporary UAB Student Union (-1983), UAB faculty lounge (1983-)
- 12th Street South intersection (south only)
- 1200-1230: Alys Stephens Center
- 1214: former location of 10th Avenue Creamery (Lester Pounds & P. F. McAllister 1953)
- 1221: Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts
- 1200-1230: Alys Stephens Center
- 13th Street South intersects
- 1300: Mervyn H. Sterne Library
- 1301: UAB National Alumni Society House
- 1321: UAB Honors Hall (opened August 18, 2021), former location of Snoozy's College Bookstore
- 14th Street South intersects
- 1400: UAB Campus Green
- 1401: Blount Hall
- 1402: UAB University Hall (grand opening August 22, 2019)
- 1516: Camp Hall
- 15th Street South (former intersection) - former location of Letaw's Drug Store (1934)
- 16th Street South intersects
- 1600: McMahon Residence Hall (built 2021), former location of Smolian International House (demolished in November 2018)
- 1601: UAB 16th Street Deck (D16S)
- 1629: Al’s Deli and Grill (1999-)
- 17th Street South intersects
- 1701: former site of New Woman All Women Health Care (demolished 2016)
- 1704: former location of Textsmart book store
- 1713: former location of Formaggio's Italian Bistro, Pizza Hut
- 1715: former residence of Lorena Zinszer (1916)
- 1717: The Purple Onion, former location of Steak & Egg Kitchen
- 1730: Paul S. Worrell Building
- 18th Street South intersects
- 1800: University Place Apartments (formerly the Guest House Motor Inn & University Inn)
- 1818: former location of George Cruikshank residence (1899)
- 1831: Alabama Opthalmology Associates
- 19th Street South intersects
- 1900: 10th Avenue Parking Deck
- 1901: Margaret Robbins Labor Center (Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Mid-South Council, United Steelworkers Local 12030, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local No. 78)
- 1911: parking lot for Homewood Suites Five Points South (2017-), former location of Five Points South YMCA (1940-, rebuilt 1951, demolished c. 2016)
- 1919: former location of Walker Percy residence (1899)
- 1920: Nineteen Twenty Club
- 1930: Makarios
- 1931: Five Points Paint & Hardware
- 20th Street South intersects
- 2000: Regions Bank, formerly Exchange Security Bank of Birmingham (built 1947)
- 2006: former location of Lollar's Cameras
- 2016: Birmingham Men's Law Firm
- 2021: Building Trades Tower (built 1970)
- Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard South (21st Street South) intersects
- north side:
- 2100: vacant lot, former location of an apartment building
- 2114: Animal Cardiology of Alabama / Animal Rehabilitation & Fitness (Ingrid Straeter 2020–), former location of Schoolar, McGahey & Lewis physicians (1920), Mack Jones (1930), George Petznick / Celia Davenport / Donald Englebert dentists (–2017)
- 2116: vacant lot, former location of George White residence (1920), D. L. Thompson (1930)
- 2120: former location of Tom Stobert residence (1920), Thomas Turner / A. R. Brown (1930), Guster Law Office (burned 2010)
- 2124: Parrish & Theus, former location of P. B. Wells residence (1920), Mrs A. W. Hulston (1930)
- 2140: former location of Rex Morris residence (1930)
- south side:
- 2101–2139: Brother Bryan Park (formerly Magnolia Park)
- north side:
- 22nd Street South intersects (road ends)
- Magnolia Avenue/23rd Street South intersection (road resumes)
- 2300: Southtown Court
- 9th Court South intersects (northeast only; road takes up at 24th Street South headed southeast)
- 2321: former location of Bob's Cafe (closed 2016)
- 2420: former location of Jones Valley Urban Farm (2001-2006)
- 2514: The Nick (formerly the The Wooden Nickel and The Draughting Board), former location of B'ham's Finest Qwik-Mart
- 2515: former location of Home Front Delicatessen (Amelia Searles 1960)
- 10th Court South/26th Street South intersects
- Elton B. Stephens Expressway overpass
Highland Park neighborhood
- Elton B. Stephens Expressway overpass
- 2600: Underwood Park
- 2601-2730: St Vincent's Medical Center
- 2601: St Vincent's Building 1 Parking Deck (built 1974)
- 2660: St Vincent's Professional Building 1 (built 1974)
- 2661: Centennial Lodge
- 2700: St Vincent's Medical Center Building Two
- 2701: St Vincent's Building Two Parking Lot
- 27th Street South intersects (north only)
- 28th Street South intersects
- 2800: former location of Frederick Joy residence
- 2829: former location of Rufus Rhodes residence (1899)
- 29th Street South intersects
- 2915: Leon Friedman residence
- 30th Street South intersects (avenue ends)
Forest Park-South Avondale neighborhood
- 38th Street South intersects (avenue resumes)
- 3800: one-story frame bungalow (built 1921)
- 3801: two-story gable house (built 1910)
- 3805: one-story frame bungalow (built 1921)
- 3807: one-story frame bungalow (built 1921)
- 3808: two-story frame gable house (built 1956)
- 3809: two-story gable house (built 1921)
- 3810: one-story gambrel house (built 1923)
- 3811: one-story frame bungalow (built 1921)
- 3812: two-story brick hip-roofed house (built 1921)
- 3815: one-story frame bungalow (built 1921)
- 3817: one-story frame & stone gable house (built 1921)
- 3826: one-story gable house (built 1921)
- 3828: one-story frame bungalow (built 1919)
- 3830: one-story gable house (built 1922)
- 3832: Samuel Barnett residence (built 1908)
- 3833: 1 1/2-story stucco house (built 1922)
- 3847: two-story Tudor style gable house (built 1911)
- 39th Street South intersects
- 3900: two-story frame hip-roof house (built 1910)
- 3901: one-story brick gable house (built 1922)
- 3907: one-story frame gable house (built 1922)
- 3910: two-story brick gable house (built 1922)
- 3911: South Highland Presbyterian manse (built 1926)
- 3916: two-story Tudor style gable house (built 1910)
- 3917: two-story brick hip-roof house (built 1915)
- 3920: two-story brick hip-roof house (built 1912)
- 3921: two-story Tudor style gable house (built 1916)
- 3924: 1 1/2-story brick gable house (built 1949)
- 40th Street South intersects
- 4001: two-story brick hip-roof house (built 1924)
- 4002: two-story brick hip-roof house (built 1912)
- 4004: one-story frame gable house (built 1921)
- 4008: one-story frame gable house (built 1921)
- 4010: one-story frame gable house (built 1923)
- 4016: one-story frame gable house (built 1923)
- Glen View Road intersects (south only)
- 4024: 1 1/2-story frame & stone gable house (built 1923)
- 4029: 1 1/2-story frame & stone gable house (built 1923)
- 4123: one-story frame gable house (built 1923)
- 42nd Street South intersects
- 4200: Webb Robertson residence (built 2015)
- 4212: one-story frame gable house (built 1921)
- 4218: one-story frame gable house (built 1921)
- 4228: one-story frame gable house (built 1921)
- 11th Avenue South intersects (south only)
- 43rd Street South intersects (south only)
- 4300: 1 1/2-story frame gable house (built 1921)
- 4301: one-story frame & brick gable house (built 1949)
- 4320: one-story frame gable house (built 1921)
- 4322: 1 1/2-story brick house (built 1922)
- 4325: one-story frame gable house (built 1923)
- 4326: one-story Tudor style brick house (built 1924)
- 4329: 1 1/2-story frame & brick gable house (built 1922)
- 4336: one-story frame gable house (built 1921)
- 4337: two-story brick colonial house (built 1922)
- 4347: two-story brick & stucco Tudor house (built 1928)
- 4348: two-story brick gable house (built 1923)
- Glenwood Avenue (north) / 43rd Place South (south) intersects
- Essex Road intersects
- 4414: two-story brick & stucco gable house (built 1929)
- 4415: one-story frame & stone gable house (built 1924)
- 4418: one-story brick gable house (built 1924)
- 4419: one-story stone gable house (built 1924)
- 4425: two-story stucco house (built 1924)
- 4427: two-story brick hip-roof house (built 1925)
- 4429: 1 1/2-story brick gable house (built 1925)
- Conroy Road intersects
- 4433: 1 1/2-story brick gambrel house (built 1925), Birthday Culture
- 4443: one-story brick hip-roof house (built 1964)
- 4501: split-level frame & stucco house (built 1962)
- avenue continues as Linwood Road
Crestwood South neighborhood
- 56th Street South intersects (avenue resumes)
- 5640: Catalyst Interiors
- Clairmont Avenue intersects (avenue ends)
South East Lake neighborhood
- avenue resumes
- 79th Place South intersects
- 80th Street South intersects
- 81st Street South intersects (avenue jogs and continues from 9th Avenue South)
- 82nd Street South intersects (south only)
- 83rd Street South intersects (north only)
- 84th Street South intersects
- Valley Hill Drive intersects (south only)
- 85th Street South intersects (north only)
- 8500: PHP of Alabama
- avenue continues as Glendale Drive
References
- Forest Park Community Association (August 29, 1980) "Forest Park Historic District" National Register of Historic Places nomination form