Places to see at Fairfield, Alabama

Best Places to visit in Fairfield, Alabama - Best Things to do in Fairfield, AL
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Flintridge Building 0.79 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The Flintridge Building (formerly the Flint Ridge Building) is a historic office building in Fairfield, Alabama, in metropolitan Birmingham. From 1951 to 1964 it served as the headquarters of the southern division of United States Steel and housed nearly 1,500 employees. In 2004 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Sited on a ridge on E.J. Oliver Boulevard near Miles College, the building overlooks the Fairfield Works. The front facade of the building features projecting, glass-enclosed rooms resembling stadium pressboxes, which provide a view of the ironworks.

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Belview Heights Historic District 1.24 7
Historic, Historical Places, Interesting Places, Historic Districts

The Belview Heights Historic District, in Birmingham, Alabama, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It runs roughly along 41st., 42st., 43rd., 44th, and 45th Sts., and M and Martin Aves. The listing included 355 contributing buildings on 150 acres (0.61\u00a0km2).

It includes 20 of the original 30 square blocks of Belview Heights, a neighborhood developed in the former town of Ensley, Alabama.

The district has \"an impressive assemblage of architectural styles popular in residential suburbs throughout the United States in the first half of the 20th century\" and in particular \"boasts one of the largest saturations of Tudor Revival architecture in Birmingham, reflecting the popularity of that particular style from the 1920s through the 1940s. The district contains examples of Colonial and Spanish Revival, American Foursquare, minimal traditional, and ranch houses as well as a large number of Bungalow/Craftsman dwellings. Of the 423 resources located in the historic district, 154 can be classified as Tudor Revival-style.\"

It includes two non-residential buildings:

  • Central Park Fire Station #24 (c.1915), 1644 44th St, Tudor Revival in style, a common bond brick and steel two-story building noted as \"an excellent example of utilizing early twentieth-century revival-style architecture in the design of a municipal building. The Tudor Revival style fire station blends-in with the surrounding residential architecture of the district.\"
  • Central Park Presbyterian Church (c.1950), designed by Birmingham architect George Turner, whose architecture includes \"Spanish and Mediterranean elements, including buttresses, spiral colonettes, palladian windows, a tile roof, and an octagonal lantern resting atop a three-tiered square bell tower. From the 1920s through the 1950s, George Turner, the architect of Central Park Presbyterian Church, designed scores of dwellings throughout Birmingham in the Spanish and Mediterranean Revival Styles, including a number of churches.\"
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Miles College 0.37 6
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

Miles College is a private historically black college in Fairfield, Alabama. Founded in 1898, it is associated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME Church) and a member of the United Negro College Fund.

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Greater Lily Star Baptist Church 0.83 1
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Vinesville Baptist Church 0.93 1
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Oakland Cemetery 1.02 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Saint Joseph Catholic Church 1.24 1
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Church of God 1.31 1
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Ensley Church of Christ 1.31 1
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Saint Stanislaus Catholic Church 1.35 1
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Martin Memorial United Methodist Church 1.36 1
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Trinity Baptist Church 1.36 1
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Ensley Community Church 1.38 1
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Wylam Presbyterian Church 1.39 1
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Belview Heights Church of Christ 1.41 1
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Wylam Baptist Church 1.42 1
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Central Park Presbyterian Church 1.44 1
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Central Park Baptist Church 1.6 1
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Midfield Theater 1.62 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places, Destroyed Objects

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Pleasant Hill Baptist Church 1.62 1
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New Pleasant Hill Baptist Church 1.67 1
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Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church 1.72 1
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Community Primitive Baptist Church 1.77 1
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Ensley Baptist Church 1.78 1
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First Baptist Church of Midfield 1.8 1
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Church of Christ 1.85 1
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Fiftyfourth Street Church of God 0.1 1
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Antioch Baptist Church 0.17 1
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Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church 0.22 1
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Fairfield Theater 0.25 1
Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places

Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It borders the city of Bridgeport and towns of Trumbull, Easton, Weston, and Westport along the Gold Coast of Connecticut. As of 2020 the town had a population of 61,512. The town is part of the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.

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Christ Episcopal Church 0.27 1
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Crumbley Bethel Baptist Church 0.36 1
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Fairfield First United Methodist Church 0.4 1
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Fairfield Presbyterian Church 0.45 1
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First Baptist Church of Fairfield 0.45 1
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Thompson African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 0.58 1
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Miles Theater 0.58 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places, Destroyed Objects

The Public Theater is a New York City arts organization founded as the Shakespeare Workshop in 1954 by Joseph Papp, with the intention of showcasing the works of up-and-coming playwrights and performers. Led by JoAnne Akalaitis from 1991 to 1993 and by George C. Wolfe from 1993 to 2004, it is currently led by Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham. The venue opened in 1967, with the world-premiere production of the musical Hair as its first show.

The Public is headquartered at 425 Lafayette Street in the former Astor Library in Lower Manhattan. The building holds five theater spaces and Joe's Pub, a cabaret-style venue used for new work, musical performances, spoken-word artists, and soloists. The Public also operates the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where it presents Shakespeare in the Park. New York natives and visitors alike have been enjoying free Shakespeare in Central Park since performances began in 1954.

Notable productions in recent years include: The Merchant of Venice, featuring Al Pacino as Shylock (2010); Here Lies Love (2013), by David Byrne; Fun Home, adapted from Alison Bechdel's illustrated memoir of the same name (2013); Eclipsed, by Danai Gurira and featuring Lupita Nyong'o (2015); and Hamilton (2015), by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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Moody Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Temple 0.59 1
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Shady Grove Methodist Church 0.7 1
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Saint Mary Catholic Church 0.75 1
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