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The A.G. Gaston Motel is a historic building and former motel in Birmingham, Alabama. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1963 during the Civil Rights movement , the Southern Christian Leadership Conference used a room in the hotel as their headquarters, which was later bombed by terrorists.
The Anderson Place Historic District, in Birmingham, Alabama, is a residential historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and the listing was expanded in 1991. [1] The houses date from 1907 to 1912 and include Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, and Bungalow/Craftsman architecture. [2]
For purposes of community development and citizen participation, the City of Birmingham's nine Council districts are divided into a total of 23 communities, and again into a total of 99 individual neighborhoods with their own neighborhood associations. Communities do not necessarily follow Council District boundaries.
The Redmont Hotel Birmingham, or simply the Redmont Hotel, [3] is a 14-story-tall (160 ft; 49 m), 120-room boutique hotel and conference center located on the corner of 5th Avenue North and 21st Street in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The Redmont, named after Birmingham's Red Mountain is the oldest hotel in
Ensley is a large city neighborhood in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It was once a separate and thriving industrial city. It was formally incorporated on February 12, 1899, but later annexed into Birmingham on January 1, 1910, under the "Greater Birmingham" legislation. [citation needed]
There's Hope for the World: The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor, University of Alabama Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8173-1623-5; Berney (1878), "Birmingham", Handbook of Alabama, Mobile: Mobile Register print. Fazio, Michael W. Landscape of Transformations: Architecture and Birmingham, Alabama. University of Tennessee ...
Thomas Jefferson Tower, originally the Thomas Jefferson Hotel and then the Cabana Hotel, is a 19-story building on the western side of downtown Birmingham, Alabama. It was completed in 1929 as the 350-room Thomas Jefferson Hotel and is at 1623 2nd Avenue North. [1] It has a tower in its roof intended to be a zeppelin mooring mast.
The Shipt Tower is a 34-story, 454-foot (138 m) tall office building in Birmingham, Alabama.Built in 1986 as the corporate headquarters for SouthTrust Corporation, the building was known as the SouthTrust Tower until 2005, when SouthTrust completed its merger with Wachovia and it became the Wachovia Tower.