St. Paul Winter Carnival ice palace
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Crews used 30,000 ice cakes and worked 16-hour days in bitter cold weather to get the fortress-like palace built. Roaring fires were used to heat water to join the ice cakes together. The palace was a 193-foot long wall, with peaks of up to 60 feet.
Photographer: H.G. Heston
Date: 1937
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…