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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17AU_sixteenth-street-baptist-church_Birmingham-AL.html
This property possesses National Significance in commemorating the history of the United States. In 1963 it was the staging ground for the Birmingham Campaign Civil Rights Youth Marches and the place where a bomb killed four young girls, "Martyred…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPT0_the-berry-project_Birmingham-AL.html
This row of buildings from 2009 to 2017 Second Avenue dates from the early years of the 20th century and has undergone a variety of changes and modernizations over the years. Originally part of a larger building that burned in 1944 (now the site o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPSU_s-h-kress-five-and-ten-cent-store_Birmingham-AL.html
Built in 1937, Birmingham's S. H. Kress Five-and-Ten Cent Store was the second completed of the three great mercantile buildings on this intersection. Its construction reflected Kress's confidence in Birmingham's economy and marked a break by its …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOJX_dewberry-drugs-and-phenix-insurance-company-buildings_Birmingham-AL.html
The two commercial buildings on this corner lot are some of the earliest surviving business houses in Birmingham. The Dewberry building appeared on the corner about 1881, and it housed the first and longest surviving drug store in the city, starti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIAR_temple-wilson-tutwiler-ii-tutwiler-hotel_Birmingham-AL.html
Temple Wilson Tutwiler, II "Tutwiler Green", this section of Birmingham Green was so named in a resolution passed by the Birmingham City Council to honor the life and work of Temple Tutwiler II, who contributed greatly to the welfare and progre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIAN_green-acres-caf_Birmingham-AL.html
Businesses that occupied this building between 1908 - 19701908 - 1913 Southern Bell Telephone Company Stockroom1915 - 1926 OK French Dry Cleaning Company1927 - 1938 George Kanelis Billiards1940 - 1945 Alex's Steak House1946 - 1971 OK Cleaning Comp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIAK_fraternal-hotel-building_Birmingham-AL.html
The Fraternal Hotel Building was built in 1925. Some of the businesses that were located in this building included: 1925 - 1980 Fraternal Hotel1925 - 1970 Fraternal Caf?1950 - 1966 Monroe Steak House1985 - 1994 Grand Lodge Knights of Pythians1928 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIAH_clark-building_Birmingham-AL.html
This building was constructed in 1908 by Louis V. Clark (1862-1934), who also built the historic Lyric Theater located nearby on 18th Street. The Clark Theater on Caldwell Park is named in honor of Mr. Clark's generosity to the Birmingham Little T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIA3_title-building_Birmingham-AL.html
Designed by William C. Weston and erected in 1902, the Title Building was the second skyscraper built in Birmingham. It was the first building to supply its tenants with electric power with its own power-generating plant and the water supply was p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIA2_the-heaviest-corner-on-earth_Birmingham-AL.html
At the turn of the 20th century, Birmingham was a small town of two and three story buildings with a few church steeples punctuating the skyline. During the industrial boom from 1902 to 1912 which made Birmingham the largest city in the state. Fou…
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