Garages and Outbuildings If you want to learn about garages and outbuildings, you’ll have to look carefully. Most are so well hidden and such modest structures that a casual stroller rarely notices them. Even so, the Village has quite a few significant old sheds, carriage houses, barns, and early 20th-century garages. Although some are brick, most of these buildings are of frame construction.
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These inconspicuous buildings have noteworthy features: they are modest in scale, usually built of inexpensive materials, and have little ornamentation. Clearly functional, these ancillary structures are of less importance than the houses they serve. For example, the large late 19th-century homes along Schiller Park have rather modest frame carriage houses and outbuildings.
Recommendations 1. Make very effort to preserve original doors, windows, siding, and roofing materials on historic garages and outbuildings.
2. Try to preserve and reuse existing historic garages and outbuildings instead of demolishing them and building new. Although deteriorated, they may still be sound enough to rehabilitate economically.
3. Use matching materials (siding, cornerboards, and window trim) when replacement of deteriorated materials is necessary.
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