19th Street South

This article is about the Southside Birmingham street. For the Homewood street, see 19th Street South Homewood.

19th Street South is a north-south street in Birmingham's Five Points South neighborhood. The street begins at the southern end of 19th Street North at the Railroad Reservation and the 19th Street underpass. From there continues south for 16 blocks, intersecting the UAB campus, to where it intersects with 15th Court South at the base of Red Mountain. It then takes a turn to the southwest and extends one block to a dead end at Valley View Park.

The road is four or five lanes wide from the 19th Street underpass down to 10th Avenue South, at which point it becomes a two-lane road.

Notable locations (north to south)

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 19th Street South category.

• Railroad Reservation and 19th Street underpass (continues north as 19th Street North)
  • West side
    • Powell Avenue Steam Plant
  • East side
    • Electrical substation
• Powell Avenue intersection
  • West side (Block 113C):
    • Birmingham Parking Authority Lot D (1975–present)
  • East side
• 1st Avenue South intersection
  • West side
    • Midtown Center
    • 130: ArchitectureWorks
  • East side
• 2nd Avenue South intersection
  • West side
    • Parking lot
    • 228: HABD Building, former location of Wood Chevrolet (1976)
  • East side
    • Parking lot
• 3rd Avenue South intersection
  • West side
    • Parking lot
    • 322: former site of Rye-Ola bottling plant
    • 324: former location of Warrior Candy Co. (1925)
  • East side
    • Apartment and retail project. Former site of Adamson Ford
    • Original site of Southside Fire Station; former site of City Market
    • 307: Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral (1953-)
• 4th Avenue South intersection (enter UAB campus)
  • West side
    • 400: Mac's One Stop (Texaco)
    • Courtyard by Marriott Birmingham Downtown
  • East side
    • 401: Southside Station
      • Suite 130: Milo's Hamburgers
• 5th Avenue South intersection
  • West side
    • UAB North Pavilion
    • Wallace Tumor Institute
    • 520-530: former location of Roberts & Son printers (1949)
  • East side
    • UAB Central Plant #3
• 6th Avenue South intersection
  • West side
    • Spain Wallace Building
  • East side
    • 601: Quarterback Tower
    • 625: Jefferson Tower
• 7th Avenue South intersection
  • West side
    • 700: Birmingham VA Medical Center
  • East side
    • 701: Lyons Harrison Research Building (former site of Shiloh Baptist Church)
    • 703: Zeigler Medical Research Building
• University Boulevard intersection
  • West side
    • Shelby Biomedical Research Building (former site of Mortimer Jordan Hall (1960–2002))
    • 828: 19th Street Parking Deck
  • East side
    • University Boulevard Parking Deck
    • 833: former location of Biomedical Sciences Building (demolished in 1990 for Bevill Biomedical Research Building)
    • 845: Bevill Biomedical Research Building
• 9th Avenue South intersection
  • West side
    • 900: Southeastern Bio-Safety Lab, (former site of UAB Bishop building (demolished in May 2006))
  • East side
    • Parking lot
    • 919: former site of John Pearson residence
• 10th Avenue South intersection (exit UAB campus)
  • West side
    • 1000: Alabama Opthalmology Associates
    • 1006: William Robertson residence (ArtPlay)
    • Southside Baptist Church
  • East side
    • Stage Employees
• 10th Court South intersection
  • West side
    • Southside Branch Library (built 1996), former site of Thomas Parke residence (-1955), Parke Memorial Branch Library (1955-1996)
• 11th Avenue South intersection
  • East side
    • St. Mary's-on-the-Highlands Episcopal Church
• 12th Avenue South intersection
  • West side
    • Ramsay High School
  • East side
• 13th Avenue South intersection
  • West side
    • 1320: Birmingham Police Department South Precinct
  • East side
    • 1309: J. H. Bingham residence (Cobb Lane Bed and Breakfast)
• 14th Avenue South intersection
  • East side
    • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham
• 15th Avenue South intersection
• 15th Court South intersection (east only; 19th turns southwest)
  • Residential
• Road ends at Valley View Park