Windham Construction Company Office Building

Windham Construction Company Office Building

The Windham Construction Company Office Building is a remarkable reminder of a successful African-American business that flourished in a segregated society. The building was home to Windham Brothers Construction Company, a major black contractor that built some of the most significant buildings in Birmingham.

Wallace Rayfield, Alabama’s first formally trained black architect, designed the building and collaborated with Windham Brothers to build the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and the Alabama Penny Savings Bank, Alabama’s first black-owned bank. In 1927, the company built the seven story Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Co. Building.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, the structure is unoccupied and threatened by vandalism. Restoration of the building could help to revitalize the adjacent Smithfield neighborhood.

For more information contact:

• The Alabama Historical Commission
• 468 S Perry Street
• Montgomery, AL 36130
• Phone: (334) 242-3184