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* [[17th Street North]] intersects
* [[17th Street North]] intersects
** north side ([[Block 18]])
** north side ([[Block 18]])
*** 1700-1730: [[Alabama Power Company]] employee parking, former location of [[Birmingham Hebrew Institute]] (1926) [[Levite Jewish Community Center|Young Men's Hebrew Association]]
*** 1700-1720: [[Alabama Power Company]] employee parking
*** 1730: [[YMHA Building]] (built 1926) former location of [[Birmingham Hebrew Institute]] (1926) [[Levite Jewish Community Center|Young Men's Hebrew Association]] (1926–1957)
** south side ([[Block 36]])
** south side ([[Block 36]])
*** [[Alabama Power Company Headquarters Complex]] (built 1990)
*** [[Alabama Power Company Headquarters Complex]] (built 1990)
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** north side ([[Block 23]])
** north side ([[Block 23]])
*** 2100: former site of [[First Christian Church Education Building|Education Building]] (built 1924)
*** 2100: former site of [[First Christian Church Education Building|Education Building]] (built 1924)
*** 2126: [[Jefferson County Domestic Relations Court]], former location of [[Edwin Stephenson]]'s residence
*** 2124: [[Jefferson County Domestic Relations Courts]], former location of [[Edwin Stephenson]]'s residence
** south side ([[Block 32]]
** south side ([[Block 32]]
*** [[Birmingham Central Library]]
*** [[Birmingham Central Library]]
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* [[24th Street North]] intersects
* [[24th Street North]] intersects
** north side ([[Block 26]])
** north side ([[Block 26]])
*** 2400–2418: [[YMCA Youth Building]]
*** 2400–2418: [[YMCA Downtown Youth Center]] (built 2006)
**** 2400–2408: former location of dwelling (1911)
**** 2400–2408: former location of dwelling (1911)
**** 2412: former location of dwelling (1911)
**** 2412: former location of dwelling (1911)

Revision as of 13:10, 23 January 2024

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

Fountain Heights

Central City

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

Kingston

North East Lake

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