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.
A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe and North America. Many were built from timber and often represent the earliest form of permanent structure in many cultures.