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stucco, and plastered and whitewashed inside, cost the pur- 
A portable garage 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
TEUUUUTELETI 
May, IgII 
A twin portable garage 
is placed on the side of a hill, and a fourth 1s constructed 
chaser $200 when bought with a new house. ‘The cost to of stucco, with a stucco wall and gable roof. 
the builder is be- 
lieved to have been 
in excess of this 
amount. 
Different manu- 
facturing companies 
have different meth- 
ods of construction, 
but the underlying 
idea in all so-called 
portable garages is 
that they are ready- 
made and assembled 
in sections so that 
they can be easily 
and securely put to- 
gether. The  allus- 
trations, with the ex- 
ception of four, show 
garages built of va- 
rious kinds of mate- 
rial. One of them is 
built of — shingles, 
with a flat roof, so 
as not to destroy the 
view from the house, 
Rough stucco is effective for a permanent garage 
These are all ex- 
cellent examples for 
a permanent garage. 
They show a great 
variety of design and 
are built of a varied 
combination of ma- 
terial. They are rep- 
resentative of the in- 
dividual taste of 
their respective own- 
ers. In most) im 
stances they have 
been designed and 
built to harmonize 
with the house to 
which they are at- 
tached. One onethte 
garages, however, 
was constructed in a 
clump of woods, 
quite removed from 
the thouse, and in 
consequence the ma- 
terial selected for 
its construction was 
while a second is built among trees and is constructed of wooden slabs. It harmonizes well with its site and is less 
log slabs. A third is built of rough rock-faced stone and 
A portable fireproof garage made of metal 
noticeable than if it had been constructed of other material. 
A portable concrete garage for $150 
