Old House Journal

Garages & outbuildings

CARRIAGE HOUSE or barn lookalike

f the automobile garage itself has little precedent as a fully detailed, multi-function space, that’s not true of outbuildings in general. Surviving barns, offering lots of room and storage capacity, were remade by several generations to become vacation homes, car barns with workshops, home offices, and so on. Victorian-era houses may have had a carriage house later converted to garage space. “Converted barn” and “carriage house” are common scenarios used

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