On a warm day, an ice house would be a place to cool down, although this structure is fancier than most ice houses in 1870. After his second term in office, Wisconsin’s first governor Nelson Dewey moved to Grant County and in the late 1860s, work began on a brick house and outbuildings designed in the Gothic Revival Style. The family only lived in the house for less than five years before fire destroyed the house, but the outbuildings like the smokehouse and this ice house survived and are now part of the Stonefield Historic Site.
Elaborate Ice House
