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The Avondale Park Historic District in Birmingham, Alabama, United States is a 200 acres (81 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1] It is in the Avondale section of the city. It includes work dating to 1886 and work by Burnhum & Greer.
The Daniel Building is a 20-story, 238 foot (86 m) office building located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Built in 1970, the building originally served as a regional office for the engineering and construction company Daniel International.
The Morris Avenue Historic District is an industrial district in Birmingham, Alabama. The district covers Morris Avenue from 20th Street to 25th Street and First Avenue from 21st to 26th Street. The Morris Avenue section comprises a set of late 19th century masonry warehouses that were Birmingham's main food distribution center until the 1950s. [2]
Photos by Carol M. Highsmith. 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.
Dr. Charles N. Carraway founded the hospital in 1908, in a house in Pratt City, now a neighborhood in Birmingham, with the capacity to treat 16 patients. [5] Carraway was an innovator in many ways: "Carraway financed the new facility by getting Birmingham businesses to agree to pay $1 a month per employee, or $1.25 per family, for treatment.
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The Hugo L. Black United States Courthouse is a United States courthouse of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.Located at 1729 North 5th Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama, [2] it was completed in 1987, and named in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black on November 10, 1987, [1] through legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by ...
St. Luke AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church at 2803 21st Avenue North in Birmingham, Alabama. It was designed by the pioneering African American Architect Wallace Rayfield. It was built in 1926 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1] [2] The church was significant in the civil rights movement. [2]