Cobb Lane Apartments
The Cobb Lane Apartments or Cobb Lane Shops (originally Levert Apartments) are a pair of 2-story brick apartment buildings at 1314–1318 20th Street South in Birmingham's Five Points South neighborhood. They were constructed around 1909 by the Levert family of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Wheelock, Joy & Wheelock architects, likely with S. Scott Joy as lead, designed the apartments with nods to the Craftsman and Prairie styles, with deep roof overhangs extending over framed window bays, inset glazed tiles in the brick, and an ornamented cornice separating grade-level commercial spaces facing 20th street from the apartment balconies above. Basement areas in both buildings are accessible from Cobb Lane. The two buildings are connected by a covered walkway supported on Greek Doric columns.