Show early Ipe hone in america icehouses houses ice have been known for at least years they were at first very primitive affairs being nothing more than deep cellars tho flooring made of boards or stone upon whick was placed a layer of straw or sawdust the sides were lined with boards set about a foot from the wall and this space was filled in with sawdust tanbark or straw A rough thatched roof completed the structure which was then tilled with ice between the layers of which tanbark or sawdust was st detroit free press |