ice-houses

Cold preservation buildings

Ice-houses are structures built to store ice year-round, typically insulated buildings where ice cut from frozen lakes and rivers was packed in sawdust to preserve it through warmer months.

Before mechanical refrigeration, ice-houses were essential for food preservation on estates, farms, and in towns: The servants fetched blocks from the ice-house for the evening's dinner.

architecture

igloo

Domed snow shelter

snowhouseShelter built from snow
domeRounded vault forming roof
blocksObstructs or sections

insulation · dwelling · shelter · construction · building · Inuit · Eskimo · arctic · Greenland · Siberia

historic

estate

Property and grounds

manorLanded aristocratic residence
VictorianOf a prim era
GeorgianOf four kings' era

harvest · sawdust · straw · cellar · underground · brick · stone · dairy · provisions · servants

winter

frozen

Solidified by extreme cold

frostThin ice coating
iciclesFrozen hanging water formations
snowFrozen crystalline precipitation

glacier · polar · chill · cold · freezing · harvesting · pond · lake · sawdust · storage

Opposites

temperature function

ice-housesfurnaces

Enclosed heating chambers

ovens · kilns · hothouses · greenhouses · boiler rooms

technological era

ice-housescryogenic storage

Preservation at extremely low temperatures

refrigeration units · walk-in coolers

Family

Familiarity: Top 1,000,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G