Redmont Park in Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Redmont Park Historic District

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 12, 2011

1. Redmont Park Historic District Marker

Inscription. Extending across the crest of Red Mountain, is the state’s second oldest garden-landscaped residential area. Developed from 1911 to 1935 by Robert Jemison, Jr., Hill Ferguson, and Henry Key Milner using landscape architects C. W. Leavitt of New York City, George H. Miller of Boston, Birmingham landscape architect William H. Kessler and engineer John Glander, the area contains Alabama’s finest collection of residential architecture of that era and includes the state’s best examples of the domestic use of Tudor, Spanish Revival, Classical Revival, English Cottage, Dutch Revival, Chateauesque, and Renaissance Revival.

National Register of Historic Places

Erected by United States Department of the Interior.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Notable Places. A significant historical year for this entry is 1911.

Location. 33° 29.902′ N, 86° 46.939′ W. Marker is in Birmingham, Alabama, in Jefferson County. It is in Redmont Park. It is at the intersection of Arlington Avenue and Aberdeen Road, on the right when traveling south on Arlington Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area:

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Birmingham AL 35223, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: First Tuberculosis Sanatorium (approx. ¼ mile away); The Little Theater Clark Memorial Theatre Virginia Samford Theatre (approx. 0.4 miles away); The Attempted Bombing of Congregation Beth-El (approx. half a mile away); The Altamont Apartments (approx. half a mile away); Jordan Home (approx. half a mile away); Thompson House (approx. half a mile away); Donnelly House (approx. half a mile away); The Coe House (approx. 0.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Birmingham.

Redmont Park Historic District Marker (North View) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 12, 2011

2. Redmont Park Historic District Marker (North View)

Redmont Park Historic District Marker (South View) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 12, 2011

3. Redmont Park Historic District Marker (South View)

Below view of the Crest of Red Mountain image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 2, 2009

4. Below view of the Crest of Red Mountain

Redmont Park Historic District (Crest Road) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 12, 2011

5. Redmont Park Historic District (Crest Road)

The view from Crest Road, Downtown Birmingham image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 12, 2011

6. The view from Crest Road, Downtown Birmingham

Example of some of the homes in Redmont Park Historic District. image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 12, 2011

7. Example of some of the homes in Redmont Park Historic District.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 12, 2011

8. Example of some of the homes in Redmont Park Historic District.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 12, 2011

9. Example of some of the homes in Redmont Park Historic District.

Sloss Furnaces veiwed from Crest Road image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, March 12, 2011

10. Sloss Furnaces veiwed from Crest Road

Many of the homes atop Red Mountain where built by Birmingham's early iron and steel industries leaders. They built on the mountain to be above the smoke and pollution that their own mills where producing down in the valley.

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on March 25, 2011, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama. This page has been viewed 2,191 times since then and 59 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. submitted on March 25, 2011, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.