As cars became a common necessity to the general public, so did the need to find a place to store them while not being used. This desire for change resulted in as described by early architects and builders in the early 1910's as the re-invention of the "Carriage House" outbuilding (Garage). Up to this era in time, people considered the carriage house or "outhouse" as a place to keep all means of transportation along with horses, this more than anything kept the smell of horse manure away from the main house. With the arrival of the self-powered automobile this was no longer a concern and people saw the commodity of keeping this form of transportation closer to the main house to avoid the discomforts of tough weather conditions such as snow, rain or whatever mother nature brought along. Carriage houses were often beautified with custom wooden garage doors sales some even with windows at the top to complement home structure.

At around 1910 when the vehicle business was booming so was the necessity to find new and modern ways to store automobiles. Many people profited bybuilding garages that were kept warm and clean to store vehicles away from the farm animals. People, especially the wealthy, saw this as an additional comfort in life to avoid the stench of horse manure penetrating their automobiles. Carriage doors for garage in ca took a whole new ideal and were thought of something more than just a place to keep animals and carriages. This marked the birth of the fashionable-world garage building that could be built near the main house since there was no smell to keep away from the house any more. Soon carriage houses were not being called carriage houses but garages.

A little history on the word "Garage": It is difficult in today's date to envision a world without garages (carriage houses) or perhaps a language without the word garage. However, this word may have not existed before the 19th century and most certainly not before the 1700's; possibly such a thing itself did not even exist before the end of the 19th century. The word garage is a direct borrowing of French garage, which was first recorded in 1802 in the sense "a place where one docks." The french verb garer, from which garage was derived, originally meant "to put goods under shelter," then "to moor a boat," and then "to put avehicle into a place for safekeeping," that is, a garage, a sense first recorded in French in 1901. English almostpromptly borrowed this French word, the first example being found in 1902.