 |  | | Grand Entrances From the opening of the auto age, garage doors scored serious style points. Ingenious design also played a big part in vehicular building closures through the first decades of the last century. The point for old-house owners today is that if the entrance to your vintage garage—or a new period garage—is graced by nothing more than a Disco-era roll-up door, it can stand out as a visual mixed message, if not a glaring anachronism. Read the whole story. 
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|  A House for the AutomobileThe Changing Garage Keeping up with the racing popularity of the automobile was a heady task at the turn of the century. Like the computer of today, what started as a technological novelty in 1893 had zoomed to a business necessity by 1918. Along with a need for paved roads, traffic controls, and sources of fuel, automobiles posed a unique architectural challenge: How to best shelter the machine? Read the whole story.   Garages, Ground ZeroDid garages exist before automobiles? If not, then Detroit is arguably the birthplace of the American car barn, as well as the horseless carriage. An unassuming brick building behind 58 Bagley Avenue is where Henry Ford rolled out his first gas-powered vehicle 102 years ago this summer. Read the whole story. 
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