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  The Icehouse Quilt Shop - Grayling MI - Tour The Icehouse
They are covered with tin to form the upper level "ice floor." This floor sloped to the center of the building so water from the melting ice would flow to a vertical drain and empty onto the ground.
Ice from nearby lakes was cut into blocks, transported to the icehouse and stored for use during the warmer season, primarily to preserve food.
In the 1930's, Rasmusson Lumber leased the building from the railroad and utilized it as a warehouse.
www.theicehousequiltshop.com /tour.html   (333 words)

  
  Icehouse at the Lake - 1915   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This building was used for storing ice for the use of the Asylum, allowing the County House the entire use of the first icehouse.
The Asylum icehouse was destroyed by fire in 1904; but, fortunately, the Superintendents had erected another building for Asylum use on the site a little south of the two Hospital buildings about where the road runs north between "L" and "M" Buildings.
After the erection of the new icehouse, the old ones were used for storing various things and were finally torn down in 1921; the icehouse at the lake was torn down in 1937.
www.talesofeloise.com /icehouse.html   (345 words)

  
 New England Farmer's Ice House card model from Fiddlersgreen.net
The small farm buildings used to store ice through the summer can usually be recognized by their thick insulated walls and few windows.
Build of whatever substance you please, so that you have a double wall, tight enough to hold air, and you will have the perfect protector of ice.
Usually the icehouse was sunk a foot or tow below the ground level in dry, porous soil and then built up with inner and outer walls between which the insulation was packed.
www.fiddlersgreen.net /buildings/new-england/icehouse/info/info.htm   (1151 words)

  
 Martian Colonists - IcehouseOrg
Build on any tile adjoining tiles they already have buildings on, so long as they have the required resources and there is room.
If a tile is full (eg; two buildings and two pawns) you can not build on it or move onto it.
Building a dome requires two of any one resource, which can be paid using one or two cards.
icehousegames.org /wiki/?title=Martian_Colonists   (1295 words)

  
 Icehouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Icehouse (building), a building where ice is stored
Icehouse pieces with which Icehouse and many other games are played.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Icehouse   (88 words)

  
 Riverside ~ Archaeology Areas
The task of locating this building was easier than the kitchen, since a photograph showed it near the location of the kitchen and smokehouse.
While oral history has always referred to the building in the historic photograph as the “washhouse”, the archaeological excavations conducted at the site reveal that washing activities were not exclusive to it.
Based on the artifacts, archaeologists believe that the building was constructed by the Moremen family around 1860 and used as a slave house until 1865 when slavery ended in Kentucky.
www.riverside-landing.org /archareas.asp   (1592 words)

  
 GREENHUT - Construction Company, INC. Premier Construction, Design, and Contractor of Northwest Florida.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
These buildings were designed to fit the historical district look of the downtown area.
The Harbormaster Building is 7,200 square foot and houses a restaurant and professional offices.
The structural integrity of the building is comprised of masonry and steel.
www.greenhut.com /Portfolio/projects/commercial.htm   (346 words)

  
 Building Big Easy
The building would have lent its name to the new project, to be called the IceHouse Residences.
She conceded the figure is "very preliminary" based on estimates for the cost of materials and installation and experience building floating foundations along some Louisiana bayous.
The draft memorandum of agreement was circulated late Monday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been trying to balance a move to preserve the storm-damaged Gentilly church, built in the 1960s and celebrated for its modern design, against desires for a successful school in a neighborhood struggling to rebound post-Katrina.
bayouarchiblog.blogspot.com   (5690 words)

  
 The Archeology of the Peel Mansion Ice House
Although we cannot say precisely when the building was constructed, the artifacts certainly indicate it was built around the same time as the Peel house, which was finished in 1875.
These finds indicate the building was used as a tool shed and storage building after the construction of the brick and mortar floor.
The renovation of the building included a new roof and stucco that was applied to the exterior to match that of the house.
www.projectpast.org /peel/2.htm   (512 words)

  
 The First Icehouse in America?
The upper Floor [the floor of the icehouse] is laid on joists placed across the top of the Inner well and for greater security I nailed a Ceiling under those Joists and filled the Space between the Ceiling and Floor with Straw.
The icehouse was utilized by President Washington and his household until 1797, and by President John Adams and his household from 1797 to 1800.
The stone-lined octagonal ice pit of Robert Morris's icehouse was uncovered by archaeologists from John Milner Associates in November 2000.
www.ushistory.org /presidentshouse/history/icehouse.htm   (821 words)

  
 Icehouse: Rules
This is called "being put in the icehouse." If this happens, the player loses control of all of his or her unplayed pyramids and gets a score of 0.
If no one is in the icehouse, then the person who made the call was wrong and pays a penalty.
If someone is in fact in the icehouse, that person gives all of the pieces left on their stash pad to the person who called "icehouse." The pieces are transferred to the other player's stash pad, leaving the person in the icehouse with an empty stash pad.
www.wunderland.com /icehouse/IcehouseRules.html   (3508 words)

  
 Papers of George Washington
What makes the icehouse particularly intriguing, Levin said, is that is became a subject of a 1784 correspondence between Washington and Morris.
It's not clear exactly when the icehouse was built, but it was probably close to 1780 when Morris built his mansion at Sixth and High Streets from the remains of earlier buildings that had burned down, including the home of Benedict Arnold.
The uncovering of the icehouse was part of a larger excavation Yamin and Levin carried out in the Independence Mall area, which is being renovated.
gwpapers.virginia.edu /articles/news/icehouse.html   (972 words)

  
 Test page for user account slcrum
Its replacement was wooden and it was not until that building burned that the brick church was begun.
It housed four schools, the grammar school, and the school of philosophy, the seminary and the Indian school, housed in the Brafferton building, one of the flanker buildings of the Wren.
The first was commissioned by John Carter and was a simple wooden building that would hat have compared to the stylistic architecture of second church, commissioned by his son.
www.resnet.wm.edu /~slcrum   (9452 words)

  
 IceHouse Lofts Denver Information and History
IceHouse Lofts is located at 18th and Wynkoop Street just north of Denver's Union Station.
Designed and built around the turn of the 20th century, the building was home to the Littleton Creamery and Beatrice Foods Cold Storage Warehouse.
The building exhibits skillful masonry work in its brick polychromatic exterior and its successful functional design as a cold storage warehouse in continuous use for eighty years.
www.hometodenver.com /lofts_IceHouseLofts.htm   (213 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com | News | Tip of the ICEHOUSE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Outraged over proposals to build a new county morgue and jail in the downtown warehouse district, instead of the artists' studios, cafes and bookstores she envisions, Hestenes was recently inspired to create her own piece of performance art.
Built in the early 1900s, the three-story building was used for the manufacture and storage of ice, much of it to refrigerate perishable cargo for the nearby rail line.
Sitting in her second-story Icehouse office, Helen Hestenes laughs uneasily when asked how she felt a few years ago when she looked out into the courtyard during the first rent-a-rave and found the space swarming with hundreds of teenagers, many of them pharmaceutically blissed-out, waving glo-sticks at 3 in the morning.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1999-11-04/feature_full.html   (3662 words)

  
 Agriculture Canada / Lacombe Research Station 1907-1982   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
That the building is still in use and today is called the cereal building (No. 18) testifies to the quality of construction.
Three substantial buildings were erected that same year: a cattle barn to house 100 head of mature stock, a dairy building to accommodate the manufacturing of butter and cheese, and a six-room house for the herdsman.
From left to right are the boardinghouse (1907); herdsman's house; dairy building, icehouse, and cattle barn (1912); the horse barn and the implement shed (1907); cereal building (1908); and the Superintendent's residence (1907).
collections.ic.gc.ca /agrican/pubweb/hs180012.asp   (787 words)

  
 Chantry Island Building Home
arious theories as to the building’s purpose have been put forward, such as storage for supplies off-loaded at the groyne (protective pier) at the south end of the island, or perhaps storage for flammable whale oil or kerosene for the lighthouse.
Other uses of the building that have been suggested are a chicken house or a small dairy building (early lightkeepers brought a cow out to the island in the warmer months).
It is quite possible that the building’s use changed over time: for example, it may have started out as a smokehouse and ended up as a storage space as needs shifted.
www.sonic.net /~dougtr   (458 words)

  
 The Bollard
The Icehouse has faced council scrutiny several times over the past decade, mainly due to complaints from neighbors who say the bar's patrons cause problems in the area.
The non-profit Center put its building on the market earlier this summer, but is expected to continue some of its work in a new, smaller incarnation.
Building heights are reduced as the complex extends toward the water, with structures designated for a "market" and a museum of some sort.
thebollard.com /story_news/gossip.html   (4088 words)

  
 Ice Harvesting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The ice was stacked high in the icehouses and covered and layered with hay or sawdust as insulation.
He also has an icehouse at the beach.” A year later, Cogger filled the new icehouse with 1,000 cakes of ice and he expected to cut the pond again before the end of winter.
The Lamprey family continued to use their icehouse until the mid- 1970s, when the building was removed.
www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/randall/chap15/randall15_2.htm   (683 words)

  
 The Patons of Usan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the second half of the 19th century, a commercial icehouse was built, and this is the vaulted building at the foot of the cliffs.
The icehouse is still in use by fishermen.
South of the buildings is a small harbour from which the salt (an expensive commodity at the time) would have been exported.
www.paton-family.co.uk /the_patons_of_usan.htm   (246 words)

  
 IceHouse Lofts Denver Colorado real estate condos in Lodo Lower Downtown denver lofts
The IceHouse Loft building was constructed in 1903 and was used almost exclusively as a cold storage warehouse.
It is a historic building located in an incredible location of Lower Downtown.
The architecture of the building is unique and when developers converted the building in 1990 they maintained the original character with: exposed brick walls, ductwork and large timber beams.
www.hotspotrealestate.com /icehouse   (193 words)

  
 Lindstrom Brochure Page 4
Other buildings were built immediately behind the farmhouse to include a butcher shop, laundry building, icehouse, and chicken coop.
The "sawdust building" provides the farm with an out-of-the-weather location for the storage of stall bedding and other items related to farm and riding ring maintenance.
The five acres immediately around the house, barn and other buildings were designed with a series of readily accessible pastures and grazing paddocks for horses.
www.cbur.com /Lindstrom4.htm   (1876 words)

  
 Our History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Since there was only one building for boys and girls, the board saw the need to add an additional building.
Hallock, was impressed with the testimony of the Conference and gave $95,000 to build the present retirement center.
Our goal for the next ten years is to see several cabins built for additional housing, expanding of the dining room and chapel, the building of a gymnasium, erecting apartments along the river bank, installing new tennis courts, and a miniature golf course.
www.tristatebiblecamp.org /History/history.htm   (693 words)

  
 Hausbau Kreta
There are two situations that call for plans or blue prints, either you are building a new home or decorating your present home.
When building a new home, there are several things you will want to consider carefully.
You wouldn't build an icehouse in the middle of the desert.
www.hausbau-kreta.com   (111 words)

  
 Cabinet.com | Hollis icehouse might be saved   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
But the little icehouse, considered the most photographed place in Hollis, is getting attention, and it is possible that the structure can be saved when the orchard land is developed.
The icehouse was a late addition to a complex of farm buildings that started with the home of a Captain Daniel Kendrick in the 1750s.
While the building’s fate remains uncertain, the planning board intends to propose another viewscape protection ordinance which could affect the appearance of future developments in town.
www.cabinet.com /headlines/2003/06/06.26.03HBJ.html   (449 words)

  
 Icehouse: Strategies
Often, a player will build a fortress by first building a shell and then dropping a piece into the enclosed space.
When the game begins and everyone is playing pieces in the middle of the table, you instead play several pieces over to the side, using the edge of the stash pad or the edge of the table or even both as defensible locations.
Desperate players use the Cheeseball not at the beginning of the game, but when they are approaching their stash limit and feel they can't get a fortress any other way.
www.wunderland.com /icehouse/IcehouseStrategies.html   (3423 words)

  
 Pike County Chamber of Commerce
The Icehouse Inn, Inc. is a beautiful motel newly opened in an existing structure originally used to store ice for a processing facility at the turn of the l9th century.
Three acres of land allows for plenty of parking for all types of vehicles, including parking for the ADA accessible building and sufficient space for 12 semi-tractor/trailer vehicles.
The building's exterior currently features attractive wood decks which will be expanded and will feature log homestyle gables.
www.pikeil.org /members/icehouseinn   (330 words)

  
 The Archeology of the Peel Mansion Ice House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The building was constructed originally as an icehouse based on architectural and archeological evidence.
IWalls of the Peel Mansion outbuilding were built 2 courses thick with a space between the bricks comprising the inner and outer wall.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s building plans were published for various types of barns and outbuildings, including icehouses.
www.projectpast.org /peel/3.htm   (352 words)

  
 The Friendship Bar - a Texas IceHouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
To their regulars, icehouses are a community center of sorts.
The Friendship is a true icehouse, serving it's beer straight from a mound of
The building itself is fairly non-distinct except for it's western saloon
hometown.aol.com /illtexaswomanill/friendshipbar.html   (340 words)

  
 Hypothermia #6
Fortress-building seems to be one of the hardest things about the game; when my friends and I play, everybody plays very offensively, icing other players' defenders while having their own iced.
If you ALL have trouble building fortresses, try this fairly common opening, which I call the "snowball opening* (Not to be confused with the "cheeseball maneuver").
Icehouse has some of the elements of a fine card game.
www.ee0r.com /icehouse/hypothermia/06/default.html   (1805 words)

  
 Jail could freeze out Icehouse - The Business Journal of Phoenix:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
She and others disagree with its proposed site, which is a stone's throw from her building, the Icehouse, a former ice production warehouse that today is an avant garde artists' outlet at 429 W. Jackson St.
Siebenthal said the new jail and expansions in the rest of the county jail system are needed because the jails hold nearly twice their capacity of 5,300 inmates.
Part of the building is without a roof, making the three-stories-tall white concrete walls a dramatic and Romanesque interior backdrop for fashion photography and movies.
www.bizjournals.com /phoenix/stories/1999/04/26/story1.html?t=printable   (789 words)

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