7th Avenue North

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 intersects
  • United Turbo & Fuel
  • 931: Wholesale Tire Outlet

Fountain Heights

• 13th Street North intersects
  • 1300: Airgas offices, former location of the Birmingham Distilling Company
  • 1321: Hope House

• 14th Street North intersects
  • north side (Block 15)
    • 1400: City Center Place apartments
    • 1404: former location of Mrs. J.R. England & Mrs. S.W. Fitzgibbons dress makers (1887)
    • 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 (1920s, present building completed in 1942)
  • south side (Block 39)
    • 1401: former location of B. G. Smith Grocery (1926)
    • 1413: Harris Early Learning Center (built 1995)
    • 1431: former location of First Congregational Christian Church (1911-1949)

• 15th Street North intersects
  • north side (Block 16)
    • 1500: former location of Charles Graffeo's store (1920s)
    • 1512: Automotive Friction Material Co., former location of Davenport & Harris Funeral Home (1926)
  • south side (Block 38)
    • 1501: Poole Funeral Chapel, former location of First Congregational Church (1926)
    • 1517½: former location of Zanzibar Hotel (1957)
    • 1525: former location of Ulysses Mason residence, Bradford Funeral Home (1930s)

• 16th Street North intersects
  • north side (Block 17)
    • former location of A. M. Stone physician (1926)
    • former location of Knesseth Israel Congregation
    • Birmingham General Employees Credit Union
  • south side (Block 37)
    • former location of Alabama Power fleet fuel service
    • former location of Knesseth Israel Congregation (1903-1955), Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God

• 17th Street North intersects
  • north side (Block 18)
    • 1700-1730: Alabama Power Company employee parking, former location of Birmingham Hebrew Institute (1926) Young Men's Hebrew Association
  • south side (Block 36)
    • Alabama Power Company Headquarters Complex (built 1990)

• 18th Street North intersects
  • north side (Block 19)
    • 1804: offices of Douglas Corretti, Donald Newsom, Mary Douglas Hawkins and James Scaldo
    • 1806: former location of Johns Funeral Home (1899-)
    • 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)

Central City

• 19th Street North intersects

(7th Avenue resumes at 21st Street, but Park Avenue/Park Place addresses were once listed as 7th Avenue North)

• • north side (Block 20)
    • Birmingham City Hall
  • south side (Block 34)
    • 1913: former location of Birmingham Fire Department headquarters (1926)
    • 1929: former location of The Chesterfield apartments (1926)

• 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)

• 20th Street North intersects (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)
    • 2015: Birmingham Board of Education (1926-)
    • Tutwiler Hotel (1986), formerly Ridgely Apartments (built 1914)

• Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North (formerly 21st Street North) intersects
  • north side (Block 23)
    • 2100: former site of Education Building (built 1924)
    • 2126: Jefferson County Domestic Relations Court, former location of Edwin Stephenson's residence
  • south side (Block 32
    • Birmingham Central Library
    • Birmingham Public Library parking

• 22nd Street North intersects
  • north side (Block 24)
    • Phillips High School parking
    • 2204: former location of The Newbold apartments (1926)
  • south side (Block 31)
    • Park Place (Hope VI project), former site of Metropolitan Gardens
    • 2217: former location of Esther Home for Girls (1925-1926)
    • former location of A. L. Monroe's boarding house (1880s)

• 23rd Street North intersects
  • north side (Block 25)
    • 2316: Phillips Academy (2006-), former location of John T. Terry residence (built 1873), Central High School (1906-1918), Phillips High School (1923-2002)
  • south side (Block 30)
  • Park Place (Hope VI project), former site of Metropolitan Gardens and Birmingham Conservatory of Music

• 24th Street North intersects
  • north side (Block 26)
    • 2400–2418: YMCA Youth Building
      • 2400–2408: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2412: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2414: former location of dwelling (1911)
    • 2420–2430: Birmingham Health Care clinic, former location of Simpson Methodist Church (1911–1941), Central Church of Christ (1941–1990)
  • south side (Block 29)
    • Marconi Park, formerly East End Park

• 25th Street North intersects
  • north side (Block 27)
    • 2500–2530: Jones Valley Teaching Farm
      • 2500–2506: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2508: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2510: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2512: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2516: former location of dwelling (1911), The Detroit apartments (1926)
      • 2520–2522: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2524–2526: former location of Birmingham Arms & Cycle Co. (1895)
      • 2528–2530: former location of dwelling (1911)
  • south side (Block 28):
    • 2501–2531: Park Place (Hope VI project), former site of Metropolitan Gardens
      • 2501–2503: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2505–2507: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2509: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2511–2515: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2517–2519: former location of dwelling (1911)
      • 2521: former site of dwelling (1911), Central City Boys Club, RolleRink

• Avenue continues under Elton B. Stephens Expressway (U.S. Highway 31)
• 26th Street North intersects
  • 2701-2711: former location of Welded Products Co. (1926)
  • 2801: Birmingham Winsupply, former location of Jefferson Dairy Co.
  • 2828: Anchor Packaging Company, former location of Southern Milk Machinery Co. (1926)
  • 2900: Bayliss Machine & Welding
  • 2928: former location of Berry & McGinn Boiler Works (1926)
  • 2930: Jim Harvey's Alignment Service, D & H Auto Sales
  • 2931: S & B Industrial Minerals, former location of Hill & Griffith Co. (1926)
  • 3000: Cline Tours, former site of Richard McNally residence, Webber Iron Co. (1926)
  • 3003: former location of Hope & Faith Baptist Church (1926)
  • 3051: former location of C. Occhipinti merchandise (1927)
  • 3100: Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority, former site of Children's Hospital
  • 3101: 1st Source Servall Appliance Parts
  • 3125: VCM Sales
  • 3200: TCI Tire Centers

Kingston

• 40th Street North intersects
  • former location of Cunningham School (built 1910)
• 44th Street North intersects
  • former location of Anderson Electric