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30-472: (Redirected from Ice House ) [REDACTED] Look up icehouse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Icehouse or ice house may refer to: Ice house (building) , a building where ice is stored Ice shanty , a shelter for ice fishing also known as an Icehouse Ice rink , a facility for ice skating. Ice hockey arena , an area where ice hockey

60-557: A brand of American beer Icehouse pieces , nestable and stackable pyramid-shaped pieces with which the abstract strategy game Icehouse and many other games are played Icehouse Earth , a climate state describing glaciated periods of Earth history See also [ edit ] The Ice House (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Icehouse All pages with titles beginning with ice house All pages with titles containing Icehouse All pages with titles containing ice house Topics referred to by

90-456: A cooling method. Rare today, it was common (see ice trade ) before the era of widespread mechanical refrigeration and air conditioning technology. The work was done as a winter chore by many farmers and as a winter occupation by icemen . Kept insulated, the ice was preserved for cold food storage during warm weather, either on the farm or for delivery to residential and commercial customers with ice boxes . A large ice trade existed in

120-481: A palace at Chennai, India, also known as Ice House Music Icehouse (band) , an Australian rock band from 1981, formerly known as Flowers (1977-1981) Icehouse (album) , the 1980 debut Australian rock album by band Flowers, later called Icehouse " Icehouse (song) ", the title track, released as a single in 1981 by Icehouse Film Ice House (film) , a 1989 film starring Melissa Gilbert and Bo Brinkman Other Icehouse (beer) ,

150-559: A time when Norway's combined ice export at 500,000 tons stood as the world's largest. Domestic production and sales were the largest single market source for ice in America and Europe. From the 1850s onwards ice cutting took on large-scale industrial proportions in Germany with Berlin as a key market. In the 1880s, New York City had over 1500 ice delivery wagons and Americans consumed over 5 million tons of ice annually. Ice cutting

180-440: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ice house (building) During the winter, ice and snow would be cut from lakes or rivers , taken into the ice house, and packed with insulation (often straw or sawdust). It would remain frozen for many months, often until the following winter, and could be used as a source of ice during the summer months. The main application of

210-988: Is played, often professionally. Places The Ice House , a folk music- turned comedy-club in Pasadena, California Ice House (Moulton, Alabama) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places Tugnet Ice House , a category A listed building in Scotland, the largest of its kind remaining in the UK The Icehouse (business growth centre) , a business growth centre in New Zealand London Ice House , an arena in London, Ontario, Canada Medibank Icehouse (Winter Olympic Institute of Australia) , Australia's only dual ice skating and ice sports venue Vivekanandar Illam ,

240-426: Is still operated traditionally, as a tourist attraction on New England campsite. In Texas , former ice houses are a cultural tradition. Ice merchants diversified to sell groceries and cold beer, serving as early convenience stores and local gathering places. The widespread 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores in the U.S., first known as U-Tote'm Stores, developed from ice houses operated by ice manufacturers, like

270-479: The ice house . Because snow on top of the ice slows freezing, it could be scraped off and piled in windrows . Alternatively, if the temperature is cold enough, a snowy surface could be flooded to produce a thicker layer of ice. A large operation would have a crew of 75 and cut 1500 tons daily. Ice cutting was a considerable export industry for northern countries in Scandinavia and North America during

300-489: The 18th century there was an increase in the construction of ice houses often at large manor houses and their estates. Ice was often imported into the UK from Scandinavia until the 1920s, although from around 1900 the import of ice declined sharply owing to the development of factories in the UK where ice was made artificially. Usually, only large mansions had purpose-built buildings to store ice. Many examples of ice houses exist in

330-447: The 19th and early 20th centuries, until mechanical refrigeration displaced it. Due to its harvesting and trade, ice was considered a "crop". Ice harvesting generally involved waiting until approximately a foot of ice had built up on the water surface in the winter. The ice would then be cut with either a handsaw or a powered saw blade into long continuous strips and then cut into large individual blocks for transport by wagon back to

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360-732: The 19th century. It started in the United States around 1800, and spread to Scandinavia around 1820, by which Norway by the mid century became a major exporter to England , Europe , the Mediterranean, and as far away as Kingdom of Kongo , Egypt and New York . Coastal Telemark had 1,300 workers exporting 125,000 tons in 1895–96, while the Oslo Fjord was the main European export region with Nesodden municipality alone employing 1,000 men and exporting 95,000 tons in 1900, at

390-690: The Southland Ice Manufacturing Company, in Houston , Dallas , and San Antonio in the 1930s. Southland was not the only company in the Southern United States to develop a convenience-store corporation from an ice business. Munford Inc. of Atlanta began in the early 20th century by vending both ice and coal from mule -drawn wagons, as the Atlantic Ice and Coal Company. By the 1970s, Munford, Inc.

420-640: The Swiss entrepreneur Carlo Gatti. In 1985, a passage was discovered beneath Ardgillan Castle in Co. Dublin, Republic of Ireland . This passage was found to be the ice house that had been known to exist on the grounds, but whose location had not been rediscovered until this date. There are other ice houses still surviving in Ireland, for example on the Woodstock Estate near Inistioge , Co. Kilkenny and at

450-475: The Tudor Ice Company in the early 19th century. In winter months, ice was chipped from a lake surface and often dragged by sled to the ice house. In summer months, icemen delivered it to residences in ice-wagons; the ice would then be stored in an icebox , which was used much like a modern refrigerator . As home and business refrigeration became more commonplace, ice houses fell into disuse, and

480-662: The UK, some of which have fallen into disrepair. Good examples of 19th-century ice houses can be found at Ashton Court, Bristol , Albrighton, Bridgnorth , Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire , Deddington Manor, Grendon, Warwickshire , and at Christchurch Mansion , Ipswich, Suffolk , Petworth House , Sussex , Danny House , Sussex, Ayscoughfee Hall , Spalding , Rufford Abbey , Eglinton Country Park in Scotland, Parlington Hall in Yorkshire and Croxteth Hall Liverpool, Burghley House , Stamford and Moggerhanger Park , Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire. An unusual example of an ice house that

510-519: The construction of an icehouse by Zimri-Lim , the King of Mari , in the northern Mesopotamian town of Terqa , "which never before had any king built." In China, archaeologists have found remains of ice pits from the 7th century BCE, and references suggest that these were in use before 1100 BCE. Alexander the Great stored snow in pits dug for that purpose around 300 BCE. In Rome, in the 3rd century CE, snow

540-805: The date and builder, but were usually conical or rounded at the bottom to hold melted ice. They usually had a drain to take away the melt-water. It is recorded that the idea for ice houses was brought to Britain by travellers who had seen similar arrangements in Italy, where peasants collected ice from the mountains and used it to keep food fresh inside caves. Ice houses were also known as ice wells , ice pits or ice mounds . Game larders and venison larders were sometimes marked on Ordnance Survey maps as ice houses. Bruce Walker, an expert on Scottish Vernacular buildings, has suggested that relatively numerous and usually long-ruined ice houses on country estates have led to Scotland's many legends of secret tunnels . During

570-613: The former Rockingham Estate in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, now accessible at Lough Key Forest Park . Ice houses allowed a trade in ice that was a major part of the early economy of the New England region of the United States, which saw fortunes made by people who transported ice in straw-packed ships to the southern states and throughout the Caribbean Sea . Most notable was Frederic Tudor (known as Boston's "Ice King") who formed

600-446: The home ice delivery business declined until it had virtually disappeared by the late 1960s. Smaller ice houses, often no more than a sawdust pile covered by a makeshift roof or tarpaulin , continued to be maintained for storing ice for use in local events such as fairs . Today, most ice for daily consumption is made in a home freezer, while bulk ice is manufactured, distributed and sold like other retail commodities. At least one icehouse

630-399: The ice was the storage of foods , but it could also be used simply to cool drinks, or in the preparation of ice cream and sorbet desserts . During the heyday of the ice trade , a typical commercial ice house would store 2,700 tonnes (3,000 short tons) of ice in a 9-by-30-metre (30 by 100 ft) and 14-metre-high (45 ft) building. A cuneiform tablet from c. 1780 BCE records

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660-521: The sale of cold beer . The distinction between South Texas ice houses and ice houses of other parts of the state and the South has been connected to the Catholicism of the region, a deeper-rooted Mexican culture, and the influence of German immigrants. Ice cutting Ice cutting is a winter task of collecting surface ice from lakes and rivers for storage in ice houses and use or sale as

690-413: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Icehouse . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Icehouse&oldid=1225986114 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

720-580: The storage of local ice taken from the River Thames in the winter months, it was taken over in the 1820s by the ice merchant William Leftwich, who used it for storing imported ice from the frozen lakes of Norway . A pair of commercial ice wells has been preserved in London, beneath what is now the London Canal Museum at King's Cross. They are around 30 feet in diameter and were originally 42 feet deep. They were built in 1857 and 1863 by

750-648: The very large Park Crescent West ice well was discovered in Park Crescent, London. It was created for Samuel Dash in the early 1780s for commercial use before the building of the John Nash crescent was begun in 1806. This ice house is 9.5 metres (31 ft) deep, and 7.5 metres (25 ft) wide, and is only a few metres away from the Jubilee line on the London Underground . Originally used for

780-434: Was a brick-lined well , which was 30 feet (9.1 m) deep and 16 feet (4.9 m) wide. A timber building with a thatched roof covered it. In 1660 Charles II had one built in London's upper St James's Park (now Green Park ). Various types and designs of ice house exist but British ice houses were commonly brick-lined, domed structures, with most of their volume underground. Ice houses varied in design depending on

810-829: Was converted from a redundant brick springhead can be found in the former grounds of Norton House , Midsomer Norton , Somerset . The largest surviving ice house in the UK is the Tugnet Ice House in Spey Bay . It was built in 1830, and used to store ice for packing salmon caught in the River Spey before transportation to market in London. During the Second World War (between 1939 and 1945) old ice houses found new uses. Although some were used to store ice and food, others, because they were often underground and well built, became air raid shelters . In 2018,

840-423: Was imported from the mountains, stored in straw-covered pits, and sold from snow shops. The ice that formed in the bottom of the pits sold at a higher price than the snow on top. By 400 BCE, Persian engineers were building yakhchāls in the desert. The structure used evaporative cooling , radiative cooling , solar chimney , and diurnal heat reservoir techniques to store ice, food, and sometimes make ice. Water

870-626: Was often channeled from a qanat to a yakhchāl, where it freezes when the conditions were right. The most common structures have a conical shape above ground with a subterranean storage space, shade walls, and ice pool. Many that were built centuries ago remain standing. The ice house was introduced to Britain in the 1600s. James I commissioned the first modern ice house in 1619 in Greenwich Park and another in Hampton Court in 1625–6. The Hampton Court ice house (or snow conserve)

900-545: Was operating a large chain of convenience stores with the name Majik Market (the company was sold in 1988 and filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990). In some parts of Texas, especially from San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country down to the Mexican border, ice houses functioned as open-air bars, with the word "icehouse" becoming a colloquialism for an establishment that derives the majority of its income from

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