Former Crystal Ice Company and Sanford Public Service Building

Former Crystal Ice Company and Sanford Public Service Building

Crystal Ice Co. and Sanford Public Service

Buildings--Florida

Ice industry--United States

Sanford (Fla.)

Ice-houses

The former Crystal Ice Company building, which was located at 110 South Park Avenue in Sanford, Florida. The Crystal Ice Company was located here in 1915, and the Sanford Public Service ice house moved in by 1917. By 1922, the building became an ice storage shop. At the time that this photograph was taken in July 2011, the building was vacant.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, most ice houses consisted of two stories with the first floor used as food storage and the second floor used to store the ice. Ice houses provided blocks of ice for home ice boxes and allowed agricultural businesses to transport their fruits and vegetables in refrigerated vehicles.

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Original color digital image by Laura Cepero, July 28, 2011.

2011-07-28

Ice Houses of Sanford Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Originally created by Laura Cepero and owned by RICHES of Central Florida.

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Hiles, Theron L. The Ice Crop, How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice: A Complete Practical Treatise for Farmers, Dairymen, Ice Dealers, Produce Shippers, Meat Packers, Cold Storers, and All Interested in Ice Houses, Cold Storage and the Handling or Use of Ice in Any Way. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1893.

Sanford, Florida City Directory, 1915. Richmond, Virginia: R.L. Polk & Co., 1915.

Sanford, Florida City Directory, 1917. Richmond, Virginia: R.L. Polk & Co., 1917.

Sanford Historical Society, Inc. Sanford. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.

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