{"id":391,"date":"2013-03-23T19:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T00:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:45:47","slug":"the-rusk-auto-house-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/the-rusk-auto-house-1915.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rusk Auto-House, 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/File:Rusk-auto-house-1915-newspaper-ad_Med.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/4\/45\/Rusk-auto-house-1915-newspaper-ad_Med.jpg\/450px-Rusk-auto-house-1915-newspaper-ad_Med.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a>One of the things my Wifey likes about me is that I geek out over weird things. \u00a0A few summers ago, while we were cruising rummage sales around Fargo, I started to geek out over a small building in an alley in the older section of town. \u00a0Yes, I&#8217;m a garage nerd, but for one particular one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/The_Rusk_Auto-House\">The Rusk Auto-House<\/a> was a solution to the fact that houses built before automobiles were common weren&#8217;t built with garages, or even planning on a garage on the property. \u00a0 Fargo Cornice had the machinery and the know-how to build almost anything out of pressed steel. \u00a0In the early 1900s they saw this new market made up of \u00a0new car owners, and the Rusk Auto-House filled their need for automobile storage. \u00a0 Amazingly, many still survive, still in the back yards of hundred-year-old houses. \u00a0One was once on the Register of Historic Places, and I&#8217;ve got photos of a couple more I&#8217;ve run across since I first posted the Auto-House page here; and, I didn&#8217;t even know there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inforum.com\/event\/image\/id\/274463\/headline\/Dick%20Olsen's%20Rusk%20Auto%20House\/\">a restored one over in North Fargo<\/a>! \u00a0The advertisement above was a 1\/2 page ad that appeared in the Fargo Forum in 1915, while an auto show was going on in town. \u00a0$139 in 1914 dollars is about $3,200 in 2013 dollars &#8212; and that&#8217;s about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmetalgarages.com\/garage-metal-steel-single-car-garage-garages.html\">what it&#8217;ll cost you to get a steel garage today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things my Wifey likes about me is that I geek out over weird things. \u00a0A few summers ago, while we were cruising rummage sales around Fargo, I started to geek out over a small building in an alley in the older section of town. \u00a0Yes, I&#8217;m a garage nerd, but for one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[55,582,108,277,583],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}