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===Central City=== | ===Central City=== | ||
* Intersection with [[19th Street North]] | * Intersection with [[19th Street North]] (7th Avenue resumes at 21st Street, but [[Park Place|Park Avenue]]/[[Park Place]] addresses were once listed as 7th Avenue North) | ||
** [[Birmingham City Hall]] | ** North side ([[Block 20]]) | ||
** 1927: former location of [[Dale's Cellar]] (-1968), [[Society's Child]] (1968-) | *** [[Birmingham City Hall]] | ||
** 1929: former location of [[Chesterfield Hotel]] (1925) | ** South side ([[Block 34]]) | ||
* [[Linn Park]] | * [[Short 20th Street]] ([[Nina's Way]], formerly West 20th Street) intersects (north only) | ||
** [[ | ** North side ([[Block 21]]) | ||
*** [[Linn Park]], formerly Capitol Park, Woodrow Wilson Park | |||
** South side ([[Block 34]]) | |||
*** [[Park Place Tower]] | |||
*** 1925: former location of [[Birmingham Fire Station No. 1]] | |||
*** 1927: former location of [[Dale's Cellar]] (-1968), [[Society's Child]] (1968-) | |||
*** 1929: former location of [[Chesterfield Hotel]] (1925) | |||
* Intersection with [[20th Street North]] (south only) | |||
** North side ([[Block 21]]) | |||
*** [[Linn Park]], formerly Capitol Park, Woodrow Wilson Park | |||
** South side ([[Block 33]]) | |||
* former intersection with [[East 20th Street]] (north only, now part of Linn Park) | |||
** North side ([[Block 22]]) | |||
*** [[Linn-Henley Research Library]] (built 1927 as [[Birmingham Public Library]]) | |||
** South side ([[Block 33]]) | |||
*** [[Tutwiler Hotel (1986)|Tutwiler Hotel]] (1986), formerly [[Ridgely Apartments]] (built 1914) | |||
* Intersection with [[21st Street North]] | * Intersection with [[21st Street North]] | ||
** 2100: former site of [[First Christian Church]] and [[First Christian Church Education Building|Education Building]] | ** North side ([[Block 23]]) | ||
** 2126: former location of [[Edwin Stephenson]]'s residence | *** 2100: former site of [[First Christian Church]] and [[First Christian Church Education Building|Education Building]] | ||
** [[Birmingham Central Library]] | *** 2126: [[Jefferson County Domestic Relations Court]], former location of [[Edwin Stephenson]]'s residence | ||
** South side ([[Block 32]] | |||
*** [[Birmingham Central Library]] | |||
*** Birmingham Public Library parking | |||
* Intersection with [[22nd Street North]] | * Intersection with [[22nd Street North]] | ||
** 2217: former location of [[Esther Home] (1925) | ** 2217: former location of [[Esther Home]] (1925) | ||
* Intersection with [[23rd Street North]] | * Intersection with [[23rd Street North]] | ||
** 2316: [[Phillips High School]] (former site of [[Central High School]] and [[John T. Terry residence]]) | ** 2316: [[Phillips High School]] (former site of [[Central High School]] and [[John T. Terry residence]]) | ||
Revision as of 12:06, 22 April 2016
7th Avenue North is a downtown street in Birmingham's northside.
The westernmost sections between Eufaula Avenue and 15th Street West and between 12th and 11th Street West near Birmingham-Southern College are known as 7th Avenue West. 7th Avenue North proper begins at 6th Street, but dies into the I-65 right of way after just two blocks.
The main stretch of 7th Avenue downtown picks up at 11th Street, just east of I-65, and runs straight into Birmingham City Hall at 19th Street. It picks up again on the other side of Linn Park, past Phillips High School and under the Elton B. Stephens Expressway, before ending at a railroad serving Sloss Furnaces just past 31st Street.
A one-block long section of 7th Avenue connects 41st Street to 42nd Place North at Whatley Elementary School. Another short section crosses from 43rd Street to Messer Airport Highway at 46th Street in Kingston. The easternmost segment runs through a residential area from southwest of 79th Street North to 83rd Street North, about four blocks northwest of East Lake. A single-engine plane crashed in that area on January 5, 2011, killing the pilot.
Electric lights were installed on 7th Avenue North from 19th to 21st Street in 1945 under the city's contract with the Birmingham Electric Company.
Notable locations
Smithfield
- 9th Street North intersection
Fountain Heights
- 13th Street North intersection
- 1300: Airgas offices, former location of the Birmingham Distilling Company
- 1321: Hope House
- 14th Street North intersection
- North side (Block 15)
- 1400: City Center Place apartments
- 1420: Ballard House (built 1950), former location of Ma Perkins' boarding house (1950s), Herschell Hamilton Sr physician (1960s), Formation Methods
- 1430: St John African Methodist Episcopal Church
- South side (Block 39)
- 1413: Harris Early Learning Center (built 1995)
- 1431: former location of First Congregational Christian Church (1911-1949)
- North side (Block 15)
- Intersection with 15th Street North
- North side (Block 16)
- South side (Block 38)
- 1501: Poole Funeral Chapel
- 1525: former location of Ulysses Mason residence
- Intersection with 16th Street North
- North side (Block 17)
- former location of Knesseth Israel Congregation
- Birmingham General Employees Credit Union
- South side (Block 37)
- former location of Alabama Power fleet fuel service
- North side (Block 17)
- Intersection with 17th Street North
- North side (Block 18)
- Alabama Power employee parking
- 1730: former location of Young Men's Hebrew Association
- South side (Block 36)
- Alabama Power Company Headquarters Complex (built 1990)
- North side (Block 18)
- Intersection with 18th Street North
- North side (Block 19)
- 1806: former location of Johns Funeral Home
- 1808: Birmingham Fire Station No. 1 (built 1971)
- 1820: Legal Services Building (built 1950), Today to Tonight mural (1978-)
- South side (Block 35)
- Birmingham Greyhound Station (built 1950)
- North side (Block 19)
Central City
- Intersection with 19th Street North (7th Avenue resumes at 21st Street, but Park Avenue/Park Place addresses were once listed as 7th Avenue North)
- Short 20th Street (Nina's Way, formerly West 20th Street) intersects (north only)
- North side (Block 21)
- Linn Park, formerly Capitol Park, Woodrow Wilson Park
- South side (Block 34)
- Park Place Tower
- 1925: former location of Birmingham Fire Station No. 1
- 1927: former location of Dale's Cellar (-1968), Society's Child (1968-)
- 1929: former location of Chesterfield Hotel (1925)
- North side (Block 21)
- Intersection with 20th Street North (south only)
- former intersection with East 20th Street (north only, now part of Linn Park)
- North side (Block 22)
- Linn-Henley Research Library (built 1927 as Birmingham Public Library)
- South side (Block 33)
- Tutwiler Hotel (1986), formerly Ridgely Apartments (built 1914)
- North side (Block 22)
- Intersection with 21st Street North
- North side (Block 23)
- 2100: former site of First Christian Church and Education Building
- 2126: Jefferson County Domestic Relations Court, former location of Edwin Stephenson's residence
- South side (Block 32
- Birmingham Central Library
- Birmingham Public Library parking
- North side (Block 23)
- Intersection with 22nd Street North
- 2217: former location of Esther Home (1925)
- Intersection with 23rd Street North
- 2316: Phillips High School (former site of Central High School and John T. Terry residence)
- Park Place (Hope VI project), former site of Metropolitan Gardens and Birmingham Conservatory of Music
- Intersection with 24th Street North
- Intersection with 25th Street North
- Jones Valley Teaching Farm
- 2521: former site of RolleRink
- Intersection with 26th Street North
- 2828: Anchor Packaging Company
- 2930: Jim Harvey's Alignment Service, D & H Auto Sales
- 3000: former site of Richard McNally residence
- 3100: former site of Children's Hospital
- 3101: 1st Source Servall Appliance Parts
Kingston
- Intersection with 44th Street North
- former location of Anderson Electric