phobia (Noun) An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular. I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders. Origin: c 1790, from words ending in -phobia, from ÏÏÎ²Î¿Ï. Compare ism, from -ism, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.
Carriage houses and garage apartments are exactly the same thing - living quarters or additional space atop a garage. Carriage houses are simply the original version of the contemporary garage apartment, named for the mode of transportation of the day: the horse-drawn carriage.
Oliver's Carriage House is a historic wood and stone barn constructed in 1811 on what was then a huge private estate in Howard County, Maryland. Since the mid-1970's, it has been the home of Kittamaqundi Community Church, an ecumenical Christian community in the heart of Columbia's Town Center.