27th Street South
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Twenty-seventh Street South (27th Street South) is a two-way north-south street in Birmingham's Southside neighborhood, running south from Powell Avenue to University Boulevard and then, somewhat haphazardly, from 10th Avenue South to Highland Avenue.
Notable locations
- For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 27th Street South category.
Southside / Five Points South
- Powell Avenue (no outlet)
- west side:
- east side:
- 1st Avenue South/Jones Valley Trail intersects, former Seaboard Air Line Railroad crossing
- west side:
- vacant lot
- Inline Electric Supply Co.
- east side:
- 2701 1st Avenue South (built 2005), Navigate Affordable Housing Partners, former location of Goodwin, Mills & Cawood architects (2005–2020)
- Eisys Inc. warehouse
- west side:
- 2nd Avenue South intersects
- west side:
- Sunbelt Rentals equipment yard
- Jeffcoat heating & air conditioning service
- east side:
- Mike's Washee Quickee car wash
- west side:
- 3rd Avenue South intersects
- west side:
- 300: Iron Tribe fitness (2010-), former location of Greater Birmingham AMBUCS
- Marty's Transmissions
- east side:
- parking lot
- former location of RPA, Inc.
- west side:
- 4th Avenue South intersects
- west side:
- Southern Distributors
- 410: former location of Walter Ford furnished rooms (1957)
- 412: former location of Buttram & Winfrey auto repairs (1946), United Engineers Inc. machinery (1957)
- 414: former location of Mason & Dullion plumbers (1957)
- east side
- Solutions Infusion Therapy
- Absco warehouse
- west side:
- 5th Avenue South intersects
- west side
- Williams Machine & Welding Co. yard
- Impact Electric Co.
- 516: former location of Lambda Resource Center (1989)
- east side
- vacant lot
- Peak Substation Services
- west side
- 6th Avenue South intersects
- west side
- 600-602: Artomotive
- 600: former location of Southern Rubber Co. tires (1946), Brandino Sales Co. (1957)
- 602: former location of Panter Tile & Marble Co. warehouse (1946), Alabama Marble Co. (1957)
- 604: ProAct Team
- 604½: former location of Southern Tile Contractors Association (1957)
- 612: residence
- 620: The Church Key (2023–), former location of [[]], Cabbages & Kings, Spike's Leather Club (Rod Caldwell, Jeffrey Hall & Ivan Reyes 2016–January 2019), The Chapel (Rod Caldwell, Jeffrey Hall & Ivan Reyes January–June 2019), Electra (Marsha Mims August 2020–)
- 630: Humphrey's Dog Resort (2022–), former location of Standard Oil Co. filling station (1926), Bingham Standard Service Station (1964), 7th Avenue Standard Service Station (1970), Battery Warehouse, War House (T. C. Cannon residence –2019)
- 600-602: Artomotive
- east side
- 601-631: warehouses
- 613: former location of White Dairy storage (1957)
- 615: former location of H. J. Hudson Plumbing & Heating Co. (1937), White Dairy office (1957)
- 621: former location of White Dairy (built 1938)
- 601-631: warehouses
- west side
- 7th Avenue South intersects
- west side
- 700: Al's on Seventh, former location of East End Drug Co. (1926), East End Sundries (1964), Alabama Sales Inc. (1970), Lakeview Yacht Club, Joe's on Seventh
- 712: former location of Thomas P. Smith trucking
- onramp to Elton B. Stephens Expressway northbound
- east side
- St Vincent's DME Warehouse
- 711: former location of Lewis Barber Shop (James A. Lewis 1937–1957)
- 731: Burger King, former location of St John's Evangelical & Reformed Church nursery (1957)
- west side
- 8th Avenue South formerly intersected
- 800: former location of F. J. Evans Engineering Co. (1950–1968)
- 810: former location of Fred W. Milton upholsterer (1937)
- 812: former location of Polglaze & Basenberg civil engineers (1957)
- University Boulevard intersects (street ends)
- 9th Avenue South formerly intersected
- 900: former location of Salvadore Barranco grocer (1937), Ella Strickland grocer (1946), A. J. Pow accountant / Alabama Contracting Co. strip miners / Stewart Holmes contractor (1957)
- 900 rear: former location of Southern Toy Co. storage (1957)
- 906: former location of Wayman Upholstering Shoppe (William Wayman 1946–1957)
- 900: former location of Salvadore Barranco grocer (1937), Ella Strickland grocer (1946), A. J. Pow accountant / Alabama Contracting Co. strip miners / Stewart Holmes contractor (1957)
- 10th Avenue South (street resumes)
- west side
- east side
- parking lot
- Hanover Circle (street ends, then resumes on either side of a grassed median)
- Hanover Place Historic District
- Newman-Crawford residence (built c. 1914)
- Hillhouse residence (built c. 1913)
- Goldman-Pearson residence (built c. 1913)
- Hanover Place Historic District
- 11th Avenue South intersects
- west side
- 1101: Claridge Manor Apartments (built 1924) / Claridge Manor Grill restaurant (1946), Claridge Dining Room (1957)
- Hanover Court Apartments, formerly the Barnett Apartments (built 1915)
- east side
- two-story apartment building (built 1947)
- west side