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Redmont Garden Apartments

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Redmont Garden Apartments is a historic complex of four buildings in Mountain Brook, Alabama. Jackson Company with a mortgage from the New York Life Insurance Company supported by the Federal Housing Administration.”

Wikipedia article Redmont Garden Apartments, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 189 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 2829 Thornhill Rd., Mountain Brook, 35213
  • When was it listed? August 1993
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Birmingham
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 93000761 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Redmont Garden Apartments between 1993 and 2020, burning about 726 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-6
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission2386 CR 65, AL
30 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission1302 MORGAN RD, AL
2 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use350 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 45 ( N OF 27), AL
15 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200615-3
30 May 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNORMAN DRIVE, AL
27 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20120427-002
22 April 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Redmont Garden Apartments: 10 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 3 plants. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Birmingham PlantVermiculitePast Producer
East Thomas Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wade Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Birmingham Red Ore Dist.IronProducer
Green Spring MineIronPast Producer
Hammond MineIronPast Producer
Hammond, Dago, Hendona, and Valleyview MinesIronPast ProducerHematite
Helen Bess MineIronPast Producer
Kewanaw MineIronPast Producer
Republic Steel/ Birmingham, Ala.IronPlant

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Brook, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook1 hurtSeveral trees uprooted along Cliff Road in the city limits of Birmingham. One large tree fell on a home, producing significant damage to the home and minor injuries to one occupant.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook$150,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook$10,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook$5,000Several trees were blown down on Altamont Road in Birmingham and on South View Drive in Vestavia Hills.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook-Power lines were downed near the intersection of Old Leeds Rd and Cherokee Rd.
June 2020HailMountain Brook-Dime to quarter size hail in the city of Mountain Brook.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook-One tree was uprooted and fell onto two cars in Mountain Brook.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook-Several trees and power lines were reported down across the city of Mountain Brook.
June 2001HailMountain Brook-Nickel size hail was reported near Brookwood Mall.
June 2001HailMountain Brook-Dime size hail was observed near Fire Station #2 on Overton Road.
February 2011HailMountain Brook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John D. and Katherine Gleissner Lustron House0.3 miles2000
Bernice L. Wright Lustron House0.3 miles2000
Orlando Apartments0.5 miles1990
Milner Heights Historic District0.6 miles2003
Red Mountain Suburbs Historic District0.6 miles1985
Enslen House0.6 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000761 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 189 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.