Flintridge Building
The Flintridge Building (or Flint Ridge Building) is a large 5-story modern office building developed in 1951 by Galbraith & Company as a divisional headquarters building for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, which moved its offices from the Brown Marx Building in downtown Birmingham. It was designed by Jack B. Smith of the Chicago, Illinois firm of Holabird, Root & Burgee.
The site, on E. J. Oliver Boulevard at Bermans Way, overlooks Fairfield Works from a ridge opposite I-20/59 in Fairfield. The central portion of the buff-brick building has glass-enclosed projections styled like "pressboxes" with a view of the works.
U. S. Steel, which had controlled TCI since 1907, consolidated its administrative functions in Pittsburgh in 1964, leaving a number of local offices in the building. In 2006 the company built an 11,000 square foot maintenance training center there.
The Flintridge Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 2004.
The building had once been offered to the city for a nominal $1 price. Former Mayor Larry Langford proposed that the city use it for a new Fairfield City Hall, and build a monorail to encircle it.
In 2011, Fairfield City Councilor F. D. Scott renewed a longstanding suggestion to use the site for a new Fairfield High School.
References
- Norris, Toraine (January 19, 2011) "Fairfield councilman wants to see if city can buy old U.S. Steel offices." Birmingham News
External links
- Flintridge Building at Emporis.com
- photograph of the Flintridge Building on Flickr.com