carport
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Her mom, Inge Allen, has a one-bedroom cottage and carport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“In recent years, the property upgrades include a new pool heater, new hardwood floors throughout the home, a new roof on the carport, and landscaping around the property,” says Raigeul.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The home has an attached two-car garage, a garage for a golf cart, and a detached four-car garage with a carport.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
She had started preparing meals on the stove outside beneath a wooden carport after an earlier fire in the kitchen of the home caused damage, Officer E. Velazquez wrote in the document.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
When we drove into his carport, his wife stood in the shadows beside the house.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
These are apartment buildings with carports, garages or retail stores on the ground floor, with flimsy supports that can collapse in the side-to-side shaking of an earthquake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024
Flimsy ground story walls for carports, garages or stores can crumble in an earthquake, and are called “soft-story” buildings, explains U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024
In 2013, San Francisco ordered retrofits of “soft-story” apartments, which are vulnerable to collapse because their upper floors are held up by flimsy, skinny columns on top of carports or garages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
You will also need to check with your homeowners association and read your deed restrictions to ensure that carports are allowed in your specific community.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
The address that Patrolman Mancuso was looking for was the tiniest structure on the block, aside from the carports, a Lilliput of the eighties.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
