# Icehouses in the American South **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icehouses-in-the-american-south/1004156 **Category:** Factual Questions **Created:** [July 13, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icehouses-in-the-american-south/1004156 "2024-07-13T20:01:54Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit) #### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icehouses-in-the-american-south/1004156/2 "2024-07-13T20:06:57Z")
We just had a related thread last month, you might find some help in it. > [@How Ice Houses worked before Refrigeration. A Linked reply from the suits thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-ice-houses-worked-before-refrigeration-a-linked-reply-from-the-suits-thread/1002941): > > Continuing the discussion from [Back when men wore suits all the time, how did they handle the summer heat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-when-men-wore-suits-all-the-time-how-did-they-handle-the-summer-heat/1002926/31): @GailForce. Ice Houses go back to before Roman times. Typically a large building, at least partially underground would be loaded with ice in the winter from a nearby Lake or River. This would be covered in an insulator like sawdust. The above ground building and roof were typically thick. The Ice House really started getting popular in the United Kingdom in the 1600s and followed the age… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icehouses-in-the-american-south/1004156)._