Simple and inexpensive 
A two-car garage 
AMERICAN HOM 
PAE F THE country home is 
not actually complete 
without its motor house, 
its utility and livability 
is greatly increased 
thereby. The motor 
may not yet compete 
with the railroad and the trolley in 
popularizing the country as a place of 
residence, but it has certainly greatly 
added to the pleasure of country life, 
and has aided and helped it in a multi- 
tude of ways. Many men who are able 
to look after their own cars, as well as 
drive them, now find it pleasanter and 
cheaper to live in the country than to remain in the city, where the cc 
of maintaining a car is considerable and the opportunities for using 
not always of the best. The small motor house, therefore, has come 
be regarded as quite necessary as an adjunct to many country place 
and since it is entirely devoid of complexity in construction, a modest ty; 
of garage has come into use, some types of which are shown in tl 
photographs on these pages. 
The small garage is, in truth, scarce more than the merest shelt 
for the machine. A certain amount of tool room is required, and sor 
appliances, but unless the owner is a natural mechanic these had be 
be of the simplest kind, since no one should undertake extensive 1 
pairs to a machine without a full and complete knowledge of its strv 
ture. Some tools, of course, will be imperative, since ordinary servi 
will demand them; but the workshop, as it is understood in large garage 
will be quite needless on the small place, and the building of the mot« 
house is, therefore, reduced to the problem of the simplest shelter. 
Four walls and a roof, with a window or two, seems to be all that 
required. The doors 
must, of course, be 
ample; they and 
the height of the 
walls must permit 
a sufficient head- 
room; beyond that, 
nothing more need 
be considered. Con- 
crete is a favorite 
material, since the 
concrete house is 
fireproof, but a con- 
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