whats different between a single family and a carriage house?
Hi, The name carriage house today may refer to a single family home, a commercial building, or an outbuilding on a property with a main house. Original carriage houses were outbuildings that were built to house horse carriages. Sometimes the horses lived in the same structure. Sometimes the caretakers for the horses and carriages lived in an apartment on the second floor. Some carriage houses were modest, others were elaborate. That might depend upon if the owner had one modest carriage, or 3 elaborate carriages that needed storage. When I first moved to the east coast, I rented an apartment on a sprawling estate in Greenwich, CT. It was one of the actual original barns from this very large estate, with the original wood plank floors still intact on the second floor. Some called this place a carriage house. I called it a barn. I lived there when I first moved to the east coast from California. The concept of carriage houses, as well as mature trees and homes on acreage were all quite f
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