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[[Image:Birmingham Arms & Cycle.jpg|right|thumb|450px|Interior of the Birmingham Arms & Cycle Co.]]
The '''Birmingham Arms & Cycle Co.''' or '''Birmingham Arms and Hardware''' was a sporting goods store and gun dealer which opened in [[1887]] in a 25'x100' two-story brick building at 1904 [[2nd Avenue North]]. The founder was Asheville, North Carolina-native [[C. J. Chunn]], who had previously operated a gun shop in Baltimore, Maryland.

The business was incorporated as the '''Birmingham Arms Company''' in [[1889]] and reincorporated on [[January 11]], [[1895]], at which time [[Robert Baugh]] was co-owner and general manager. It was located at 2023 [[2nd Avenue North]] in the 1890s, 2524 [[7th Avenue North]] in [[1895]], 1916 2nd Avenue North in the early 1900s, 1919 [[3rd Avenue North]] in [[1914]], at 2017 3rd Avenue North in the 1920s, with a second location at 103 [[20th Street North]] in 1925.

In addition to athletic goods, guns, hunting and fishing supplies and bicycles, the shop sold fireworks, watches, razors and hammocks. The store was also involved in organizing shows for the [[Birmingham Kennel Club]]. [[Ernest Loosley]] headed the company's bicycle repair shop in the 1890s.

In the 1920s the store was a licensed retailer for A. J. Reach & Co., Stall & Dean, and A. G. Spalding & Bros. equipment.

In [[1925]] the business was reincorporated as the '''Birmingham Arms & Hardware Company''' with [[J. E. Lewis]], [[T. A. Lappage]], and [[T. B. Marshall]] as executives. Later that year it was acquired by [[Beach Chenoweth]], who continued to operate it as a division of his [[B. M. Chenoweth Co.]]

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[[Category:Sporting goods stores]]
[[Category:Bicycle shops]]
[[Category:Gun shops]]
[[Category:1880 establishments]]
[[Category:1925 disestablishments]]
[[Category:2nd Avenue North]]
[[Category:Eubank Mercantile Building]]
[[Category:7th Avenue North]]