St. Paul Winter Carnival ice palace
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Aurora Park was the site of an ill-fated Saint Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace in 1896. Weather didn't cooperate and the palace had to be scaled back from a more grand size. Fort Karnival was more of an ice stockade designed by military personnel from Fort Snelling.
Photographer: Paul Peterson
Date: 1896
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Frogtown's Winter Carnival Days
Frogtown's Winter Carnival Days
Aurora Park was the site of an ill-fated Saint Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace in 1896. Weather didn’t cooperate and the palace had to be scaled back from a more grand size. Fort Karnival was more of…