Two-Car Garage

Two-Car Garage

A rustic style house with wood vertical siding, large shutters and a wooden cross bar railing on the balcony. The house is built over a two-car garage. The first garages were converted carriage houses as horses were replaced by automobiles. Garages built specifically to store automobiles were placed at the back of a home's lot, separate from the house in case of fire. In the 1940s architects started to incorporate garages into the house design. By the 1960s the average family could afford two vehicles so the garage expanded in size.

circa 1960s - 1970s

Midway Village Museum

Still Image

74.595.541

Photograph

2.5" x 3.5"