The east half was Caroline Gordon's Candle Shop. The upstairs was used as a community hall for dancing, roller skating and a yearly traveling medicine show.
The back addition was an old ice house. Ice was sawed off both the
canal and Duck Creek in the winter and was then stacked between layers of
sawdust to insulate it for summer use. To help further insulate the
ice in storage, the walls of the building are built three bricks deep.
These ice ponds and storage houses were under lease by the Cincinnati Coal
and Ice Company. |
