ice houses
Cold storage buildings
Ice houses are structures built to store ice year-round, typically insulated buildings where winter ice was packed in sawdust or straw to preserve it through summer months.
Before mechanical refrigeration, ice houses were essential for food preservation and cooling drinks.
The term also refers to small shelters fishermen place on frozen lakes for ice fishing: We set up the ice house and drilled through two feet of ice.
Domed snow shelter
- snowFrozen crystalline precipitation
- blocksObstructs or sections
- domeRounded vault forming roof
- shelterProtected place or structure
Arctic · traditional · indigenous · survival · temporary · hunting · spiral · windbreak
Maintaining something's condition
- perishablesItems prone to decay
- meatAnimal tissue for food
- butterSolid fat from cream
- dairyMilk-based foods collectively
fish · cooling · blocks · stacking · packing · sawdust · straw · chaff
Arrangement of interconnected parts
- pitFruit's hard seed
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- cellarUnderground storage room
- domeRounded vault forming roof
thatched · brick · stone · sawdust · insulation · drainage · double-walled · ventilation
igloo
Domed snow shelter
shelter · Arctic · traditional · indigenous · survival · temporary · hunting · spiral · windbreak · entrance
preservation
Maintaining something's condition
- perishablesItems prone to decay
- meatAnimal tissue for food
- butterSolid fat from cream
dairy · fish · cooling · blocks · stacking · packing · sawdust · straw · chaff · layering
structure
Arrangement of interconnected parts
- pitFruit's hard seed
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- cellarUnderground storage room
dome · thatched · brick · stone · sawdust · insulation · drainage · double-walled · ventilation · straw
pond
Small still body
tongs · pike · blocks · cutting · scoring · floating · hauling · horse-drawn · sleigh · laborers
trade
Exchange of commodities
- commerceExchange of goods, services
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- exportForeign-bound sale
shipping · Boston · Norway · railroad · economy · distribution · suppliers · merchants · monopoly · decline
- frontier lifehomesteaders, farmer, homesteading, shepherd, pioneer women
- ice tradeicehouses, iceboxes, delivery routes, cold chain
- UK fishingcod, haddock, herring, mackerel, plaice
- cold architectureigloos, insulation, triple glazing, double glazing, heat retention
- Arctic PeoplesInuit, Inuk, Aleut, Eskimo, Aleuts
- dwellingshome, apartment, cabin, cottage, mansion
ice housesfurnaces
Enclosed heating chambers
kilns · ovens · saunas · greenhouses · boiler rooms
ice housesfirehouses
Emergency response headquarters
bakeries · smelters · blast furnaces · crematoriums · foundries