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English: The Finley Roundhouse was built in 1915 by the Southern Railway as part of its Finley Yard and Shop Complex in Birmingham, Alabama. The facility was named after former president William Wilson Finley (1853-1913). It was used for locomotive repairs and storage for 37 years until the railway relocated its operations to the Ernest E. Norris Yard in Irondale, Alabama in 1952. The Finley Roundhouse had been altered by the railway for use as warehouse space and the railway leased it to several local businesses that used it for cold storage and carpet warehousing, among other uses. A spur line from the main yard connects the Roundhouse and the warehouse area from the side. The Finley Roundhouse is currently owned by the Norfolk-Southern Railroad and has been abandoned since 2003, when the railroad had stopped leasing of the building. The Finley Roundhouse was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and on the "Places in Peril" program by the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation in 2017 for its endangered risk and significance as one of the last 3 surviving railroad roundhouses in the State of Alabama and significance to the unique industrial legacy of Birmingham. Current initiatives to rescue and restore the structure are being led by Khari Marquette of the Save the Finley Roundhouse organization, of which he founded to oversee the process of saving it.