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crete house with a wooded roof is, of 
course, no more fireproof than one with 
wooded walls, and the latter material 
is also favorably regarded for inex- 
pensive garages. 
There are few structures that are at 
once so useful and so necessary into 
which the artistic enters so slightly. No 
structure on the house grounds is so 
unobtrusive or so modest as the small 
garage. Its design is practically fixed 
by its form and dimensions, and being 
strictly utilitarian in purpose calls for 
no unnecessary artistic features. One 
may, indeed, apply trellises to the 
walls, as has been done in one of the houses illustrated—to its great 
advantage, but the artistic problem of this small structure has yet to be 
developed. Meanwhile we may well remain content with the simplest 
of designs and with the most modest of exteriors. It is not so much 
the form of the house as the machine that it shelters. ‘The latter is 
quite outside the scope of these brief notes, and it is perfectly obvious 
that any sort of a machine may be sheltered in any sort of a building 
large enough to contain it, and provided with a suitable means of get- 
ting in and out. 
Being a modest structure, the modest garage seeks the retirement of 
the most modest spot on the home grounds. It has no functions on the 
lawn, nor does it properly belong in a conspicuous place. It need only 
be big enough for the demands made of it and sufficiently accessible to 
meet every requirement. It may, therefore, be imagined at the rear of 
the lot, or beneath some shadowing trees, or embedded in shrubbery. It 
belongs in just such places and nowhere else. And this is not because 
its modesty is unartistic or offensive, but because such a simple little 
building has abso- 
lutely no other place 
to which it is suited. 
By its nature the 
garage is small, 
modest and retiring. 
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