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Revision as of 13:59, 6 May 2020
19th Street Ensley is a street in the Ensley business district. It begins at Avenue B just southeast of U. S. Steel's former Ensley Works and proceeds southeast to Avenue I, then bends to the east and continues to Avenue W just west of I-20/59. The street continues toward downtown Birmingham via Bush Hills as Bush Boulevard/8th Avenue North.
Notable addresses
- former location of TCI Commissary (Ensley).
- 101: former location of Plant Cafe (Pete Harduval 1960)
- 103: former location of Harduvel Bros. restaurant (1910)
- 108: former location of Riverside Cafe (1910)
- former location of Ensley Land Co. (1903)
- 300: former location of the New York Store clothiers (1903)
- 301: former location of C. S. Williams pawn shop (1903)
- 302: former location of H. Kanjutzky dry goods (1903)
- 303: former location of Hustler Grocery Co. (1903)
- 304: former location of Cadenhead & Tyler pawn shop (1903), Ensley Furniture and Printing Co. (1934)
- 304½: former location of Mrs H. G. Williamson dressmaker (1903)
- 305: former location of Ensley Furniture Co. / Will Black's barber shop (1903)
- 306: former location of Goldstein & Berkowitz dry goods (1903)
- 307: former location of the Boston Clothing Store (1903)
- 308: Wallace Lounge
- 315: former location of John Checkas fruit stand (1903)
- 321: Bethesda Wellness Center (2020)
- 324: former location of New Orleans Cafe (1938-1939)
- Avenue D Ensley intersection
- Northwest side
- 400: Cotton's department store (1922-2012), former location of The Bee Hive dry goods & shoes (1903)
- 402: former location of D. B. Bird grocery (1903)
- 404: former location of John M. Martin druggist / Mrs Langford dressmaker (1903), Goldstein & Cohen dry goods & shoes (1917)
- 404: former location of Ensley Odd Fellows' Hall (1903)
- 406: former location of Ensley Bakery (1903)
- 408: former location of The Model Market / J. H. Eubanks & Co. grocery & dairy / Fred Kastorff bicycle shop (1903)
- 410: Busch's jewelers, former location of Byrum & Butcher hardware (1903)
- 412: former location of J. S. Hall & Co. dry goods & shoes (1903)
- 414: Ensley Grill (1930–), former location of Mrs M. L. Martin millinery (1903)
- 416: former location of Tony Frank fruit stand (1903)
- 418: former location of J. S. Knight insurance / E. J. Hudnall real estate / W. W. Ellis jeweler (1903), White Palace Barber Shop (1917), Gilmer Drug Co.
- Southeast side
- 401: vacant, former location of Nolan's Hall / Vann Bros. furniture (1903)
- 403: vacant
- 405: vacant, former offices of Martin Weinberg
- 409: vacant, former location of McCrory's department store (1962–), Project Safe (Birmingham Police Department Domestic Violence Unit
- 413: Gilmer Drugs
- 415: former location of Ensley Co. (1903)
- 421: former location of Lyons & Co. pool hall (1903)
- 425: Monumental Contracting Services, formerly Bank of Ensley (1917–1929)
- Northwest side
- Avenue E Ensley
- former location of Fossett's Cafe (1903)
- 506: Ellis Flower Shop (1934)
- 508: Ensley Hotel (18877–1910s), Ramsay-McCormack Building (1928–)
- 511: former location of Joe Steed's Theatres (1927)
- 514: Outlet discount store
- 519: Styles of Today
- 526: former location of Mrs E. W. Johnson dressmaker (1903)
- 528: former location of M. L. Daniel grocery (1903)
- 602: former location of Belle Theatre (early 1900s)
- 608: Jaynee's Fashions
- 611: A. G. Callins & Associates
- 616: former location of Birmingham Police Department West Precinct (1967-2015)
- Avenue F Ensley: Berney's Drug Store (1898–1959)
- former location of Alex Claiborne blacksmith shop (1903)
- 702: Ideal Furniture
- 713: former location of F. M. Slye contractor (1903)
- 717: former location of Ensley Cleaning Works (1917)
- 721: J & D Barber Shop
- 723-725: former location of Dabney Galusha Post 3407, Veterans of Foreign Wars (1953-1961)
- 900: former location of Bondi & Lovoi restaurant (1928), Friendly Tavern (Don Snyder 1959)
- 1420–1430: The Hamilton Apartments
- Avenue O Ensley intersects:
- 1500–1530: First Baptist Church of Ensley
- 1504: former location of Cotton's Confectionary (John Cotton 1942)
- 1501–1515: service station
- 1501: 19th Street Grill
- 1517: former location of Clifton Lattimore, physician
- 1523: Carter's Barber Shop
- 1525–1529: former location of Quality Cleaners
- 1500–1530: First Baptist Church of Ensley
- Avenue P Ensley intersects:
- 1600–1616: Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
- 1601–1603: 2-story commercial building
- 1601: vacant
- 1603: Superior Style Shop (2014–)
- 1613: apartment building (damaged by fire in April 2020)
- 1621: New Testament House of Refuge
- 1915: Holy Family Community Hospital (1946–)
- 2001: Holy Family Cristo Rey High School (1943–)
- Avenue V Ensley: Exxon
- continues as Bush Boulevard