UPDATE: 2.17.2008 – Images are up
UPDATE: 2.16.2008 – Street closing information
Bob Farley/f8photo
As many of you already know, the Parliament House Hotel is being imploded on Sunday morning at 7 a.m., weather permitting. Check in with us on Sunday morning after 8 a.m. to see pictures from this unique event. You can bookmark this page as we’ll have a link from here to the gallery.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, building, images, implosion, information, leveled, links, Parliament House Hotel, photos, southside
UPDATE: 2.16.2008 – Street closing information
We were hoping we’d be able to get that news up this evening before anyone else did, though the Birmingham Business Journal ended up beating us to the punch. We actually confirmed it with sources yesterday morning.
As far as a time goes, let’s just say that you’ll probably want to wake up pretty early this coming Sunday morning if you want to watch history take place – maybe some time around dawn. So there will probably be a few folks doing a double take as they drive down 20th Street on the way to church later Sunday morning.
We’d also not recommend trying to get too close if you do go down to “watch”; there’s a reason they normally keep you a few blocks away…
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Tagged Alabama, architecture, Birmingham, February, implode, implosion, Parliament House Hotel
Workers sift through the debris of 1809 Morris Avenue’s rear wall Monday morning. Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo
One of the more surprising stories was the collapse of the rear of 1809 Morris Avenue in the early hours of Sunday morning. No one was injured in the collapse, which occurred directly across the street from downtown Birmingham’s Central Station.
Here are accounts from The Birmingham News and CBS 42.
Since we’ve spent most of the day beginning to test drive a new section of the site, we’ll make sure we make up for it in tonight’s last car. You may also want to keep your eyes peeled if you’re our friend on MySpace or Facebook about beta-testing for us beginning this evening. So if you want to do that, sign on up.
Posted in 35203, architecture, From the Stationmaster, Random Shots
Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo
This is the scene looking west along 4th Avenue North as the News’ former home sees its last days on the northeast corner of 22nd Street & 4th Avenue North. Demolition of the 1917 structure is expected to be completed early next week.
Click on the image above to get a closer look.
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The crowd at the 2006 Rickwood Classic. Photo credit: André Natta
Not only is America’s oldest ballpark enjoying some visits from minor league officials this week, it’s also enjoying its recently redesigned website. Head on over to http://www.rickwood.com (yeah, we know it’s not finished yet, but check it out anyway) and see what we mean.
And that’s on top of the park having been the cover story in this month’s Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine. Here’s a link to the article as it exists on the website. Here’s a link to a PDF of the article as well. It’s a nice way for the park to get some attention as an unofficial countdown begins towards its 100th birthday in 2010.
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UPDATE: 2.16.2008 – Street closing information
The Parliament House Hotel as it looked in 2005. Photo credit: Chris Patriarca/Bhamwiki
This morning at the city’s Design Review Committee meeting, approval for demolition was granted to UAB so that they could demolish the former Parliament House Motor Hotel on 20th Street South. Jeremy Erdreich was at this morning’s meeting and sent in this letter to my Birmingham. It is written in response to André’s editorial about our city’s urban fabric.
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Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo
You may have missed it last week, but there’s a good chance that the A.G. Gaston Hotel will be getting a new owner in the coming months, bringing along with him a new life for the local historic landmark property.
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