Henry Green Builds an Automobile House

07/06/1908 |

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Henry Green applied for a—and received – a permit to construct an "automobile house," better known these days as a garage, at the rear of his property at 50 Ashley Street.

More details

The permit gives us the following details about the automobile house:

Structure would be 18 feet by 12 feet
Foundation would be wood posts
Exterior walls would be wood
Roof would be pitched with shingles

The estimated cost of the project was $100.
Green listed himself as the owner of the property.

The past recalled

Green applied for a permit to build a laboratory and listed Annie Green as property owner on the application on May 1, 1896.

For the record

The garage went in next to the lab, and together they were 42 feet across (12 for the garage and 30 for the lab). The lot was then, as it is today, 50 feet across.
The cost of the garage would be $2,926.03 in today's dollars.

Sources

City of Hartford Office of Building Inspector, "Building Permit No. 328 – Automobile House," July 6, 1908.

Sanborn Map Company, "Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut," New York City, NY, 1917.

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