Heading west on Magnolia Avenue past South 39th Street, we get to some of those exceptionally long lots.

But these houses don’t have those long yards, because the backs were partitioned off to create houses facing South 39th Street, sitting perpendicular to Magnolia Avenue.

They are typical houses from the early Twentieth Century.

One house was lost to demolition just to the west of the house above.

And then we see the beginning of skinny, slender apartment buildings from the mid-Twentieth Century that take advantage of the long lots.

They’re nothing to write home about, and then we go back to early Twentieth Century building fabric.

Now these houses have property lines that stretch way back to the alley, with swaths of grass lawns. But curiously they don’t have garages on the alley.

This cool, apartment building with interesting details follows.

There are a couple of “Skinker-DeBaliviere” apartment building next.

Finally, before Lawrence Street are s row of those interested, hard to describe mid-century modern bungalows with what is known as a Dutch gable roof. I’d love to someday figure out the genesis of these houses.

I love the bold yellow on what looks to be the original door below.