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:''This article refers to the club located at 502 [[20th Street North]], for the more information on clubs with similar names, see [[Birmingham Athletic Club (disambiguation)]].''
:''This article refers to the club located at 502 [[20th Street North]], for the more information on clubs with similar names, see [[Birmingham Athletic Club (disambiguation)]].''


'''Birmingham Athletic Club''' was located at 502 [[20th Street North]]. It is not to be confused with the later [[Birmingham Athletic Club (1999)| club with the same name]].
'''Birmingham Athletic Club''' was a private club located at 502 [[20th Street North]]. It was organized in [[1888]] and incorporated on [[July 16]], [[1889]]. Its long-time home, a three story brick-clad building with a full basement, was completed in July [[1903]] at a cost of $57,000. The basement floor housed a rifle range, pressing club, bowling alleys and boilers. The first floor housed offices, lounges, pool and billiards, a library and barber shop. The director's office was on the second floor along with a gymnasium, hand-ball courts, boxing and wrestling rooms and a spectator's gallery.
 
The club fielded its own entrants in numerous competitive events, including a football team. The club hosted an annual [[May 1|May Day]] track competition and also hosted a national wrestling championship in [[1920]]
 
The [[Regions Center]] building, constructed as the First National-Southern Natural Building in [[1972]], sits on the site of the former Birmingham Athletic Club and its neighbor, the [[Southern Club]].
 
A new [[Birmingham Athletic Club (1999)|Birmingham Athletic Club]] was opened in the [[John A. Hand Building]] in [[1999]].


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==Presidents==
* [[1889]]-[[1891]]: [[H. L. Underwood]]
* [[1982]]-[[1893]]: [[Leigh Caroll]]
* [[1894]]-[[1904]]: [[Solon Jacobs]]
* [[1905]]: [[W. D. Nesbitt]]
* [[1906]]: [[R. P. Means]]
* [[1907]]: [[John F. Fletcher]]
* [[1908]]: [[Ed Warren, Jr]]
* [[1909]]-[[1910]]: [[S. P. Spurgeon]]
* [[1911]]-[[1912]]: [[Solon Jacobs]]
* [[1913]]: [[S. P. Spurgeon]]
* [[1914]]-[[1915]]: [[Ed Anderson]]
* [[1916]]-[[1917]]: [[Wiley Alford]]
* [[1918]]-[[1919]]: [[Herbert Cobbs]]
==References==
* {{Cruikshank-1920}}


[[Category:Recreation clubs]]
[[Category:Recreation clubs]]
[[Category:20th Street North]]
[[Category:20th Street North]]

Revision as of 18:43, 18 November 2009

This article refers to the club located at 502 20th Street North, for the more information on clubs with similar names, see Birmingham Athletic Club (disambiguation).

Birmingham Athletic Club was a private club located at 502 20th Street North. It was organized in 1888 and incorporated on July 16, 1889. Its long-time home, a three story brick-clad building with a full basement, was completed in July 1903 at a cost of $57,000. The basement floor housed a rifle range, pressing club, bowling alleys and boilers. The first floor housed offices, lounges, pool and billiards, a library and barber shop. The director's office was on the second floor along with a gymnasium, hand-ball courts, boxing and wrestling rooms and a spectator's gallery.

The club fielded its own entrants in numerous competitive events, including a football team. The club hosted an annual May Day track competition and also hosted a national wrestling championship in 1920

The Regions Center building, constructed as the First National-Southern Natural Building in 1972, sits on the site of the former Birmingham Athletic Club and its neighbor, the Southern Club.

A new Birmingham Athletic Club was opened in the John A. Hand Building in 1999.

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