Gas Station, Original: (Satellite)
Gas Station, Restored: (Satellite)
Ferdous Ferdous posted three photos with the comment: "In the decades before electric refrigeration, Iowa's lakes and rivers were home to winter ice "harvests" which went into storage for use the rest of the year. Clear Lake had several ice houses, most served by the Mason City-Clear Lake Inter-Urban Railroad. Trains lined up along the shore and were loaded with ice for storage in both towns which then serviced all of north central Iowa via horse wagons and trucks. One of the larger ice houses in Clear Lake, near the current downtown City Beach, burned to the ground in the early spring of 1912 leaving 8,000 tons of block ice to melt well into July."
It operated from 1925 to...
...1990. Note that a service-bay building had been added. I wonder how many times the pumps were upgraded.
When construction of IA-58 threatened the building, it was moved and restored in 1993.
Ice House Museum
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| Street View, Jun 2021 |
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| CedarFallsHistory "Built to hold 16 million pounds of ice! "Visit the only museum in the U.S. that tells the story of ice harvesting in an original ice house! This 1921 round structure contains tools once used to cut ice from the Cedar River right nearby. Experience an international industry that brought fresh food to the world, and learn how this once-common business transformed our culture and daily lives." |
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| CedarFallsHistory_ice Every Spring, sandbags were put around the museum. "But in 2008, the record water levels were too high to stop. Water rushed over the sandbags, pushed open the doors, and rose to four feet inside the building. Strong currents threw the displays and artifacts around and damaged many objects beyond repair. Flood mud coated everything." [I remember reports in 2008 that the Cedar River had a record flood and caused a lot of damage.] |
Ferdous Ferdous posted three photos with the comment: "In the decades before electric refrigeration, Iowa's lakes and rivers were home to winter ice "harvests" which went into storage for use the rest of the year. Clear Lake had several ice houses, most served by the Mason City-Clear Lake Inter-Urban Railroad. Trains lined up along the shore and were loaded with ice for storage in both towns which then serviced all of north central Iowa via horse wagons and trucks. One of the larger ice houses in Clear Lake, near the current downtown City Beach, burned to the ground in the early spring of 1912 leaving 8,000 tons of block ice to melt well into July."
Ruth Harken: Cedar Falls also had an ice house on the Cedar River. It was an interesting site of history and fun to visit, until the flood of 2008 finally took it down. Up to then it had survived other floods.
Dennis DeBruler: Ruth Harken As part of rebuilding it, they raised the floor. The artifacts remained above the 2016 flood waters. https://www.cedarfallshistory.org/dig-deeper-ice-house
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1925 Behrens-Rapp Sinclair Filling Station
It is now a visitor center and trail head.
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| Vincent Mossman, Oct 2017 |
It operated from 1925 to...
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...1990. Note that a service-bay building had been added. I wonder how many times the pumps were upgraded.
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When construction of IA-58 threatened the building, it was moved and restored in 1993.
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14th Street used to connect with Waterloo Road.
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| 1972/73 Cedar Falls Quad @ 24,000 |
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