Postwar house with attached garage, Bowie, Maryland. (Library of Congress)In its ongoing series Future Archive, the journal Places republishes significant 20th-century texts that have had limited cultural presence because were not previously available online. Each is selected and introduced by a prominent scholar. J.B. Jackson’s 1976 essay on the American garage, displaying his rare ability to combine deep erudition with eloquent and plainspoken analysis, is introduced by Jeffry Kastner, a New York-based writer and critic and the senior editor of Cabinet magazine. Read it here.
