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The Heaviest Corner on Earth is a promotional name given to the corner of 20th Street and 1st Avenue North in 
The announcement of the last building was made in the ''Jemison Magazine'' in a January 1911 article titled "Birmingham to Have the Heaviest Corner in the South". Over the years, that claim was inflated to the improbable "Heaviest Corner on Earth", which remains a popular name for the grouping. ''See also:''
A marker, erected on May 23, 1985 by the Birmingham Historical Society, with cooperation from Operation New Birmingham, stands on the sidewalk outside the Empire Building describing the group. The buildings have been listed on the
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1. ...
, Alabama
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, anthem = "Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,765 ...
, United States, in the early 20th century. The name reflected the nearly simultaneous appearance of four of the tallest buildings in the South, the 10-story ''Woodward Building'' (1902), 16-story ''Brown Marx Building'' (1906), 16-story ''Empire Building'' (1909), and the 21-story '' American Trust and Savings Bank Building'' (1912).
The announcement of the last building was made in the ''Jemison Magazine'' in a January 1911 article titled "Birmingham to Have the Heaviest Corner in the South". Over the years, that claim was inflated to the improbable "Heaviest Corner on Earth", which remains a popular name for the grouping. ''See also:''
A marker, erected on May 23, 1985 by the Birmingham Historical Society, with cooperation from Operation New Birmingham, stands on the sidewalk outside the Empire Building describing the group. The buildings have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
: three were listed individually in 1982 and 1983, and the group of four was listed as a historic district on July 11, 1985.
See also
*National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. ...
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* {{National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Buildings and structures completed in 1906 Office buildings completed in 1912 Buildings and structures in Birmingham, Alabama Neoclassical architecture in Alabama National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham, Alabama Historic districts in Birmingham, Alabama Historic American Buildings Survey in Alabama 1906 establishments in Alabama