[Those Who Squirm!]

On the county assessor's website it's listed as two adjacent parcels, 470 and 480 S. Burlington Avenue, with nine and ten units respectively. The build date is 1921, leading me to wonder if it was originally intended as a tourist hotel of some kind. Presumably it wouldn't have been a motel because even in 1921 there probably wasn't much parking around here. I'm thinking tourists because after all, people are generally a lot more willing to put up with such congested quarters for a night or two than for an indefinite period. It's depressing to see that these are now apparently permanent residences.

After all, motor courts were very popular in the 1920s and 30s, e.g. the "walls of Jericho" scene in It Happened One Night.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

bungalow court on steroids


I'm unsure if this was built during the post-war housing shortage or decades earlier by a overly greedy developer.

S. Burlington Avenue and 5th Street

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-their basic shape makes me think of the wooden bungalows of the 1920s & 1930s.

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I imagine the awful stucco was added much later (with a giant hose by the way they look )
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