St. Paul Winter Carnival ice palace construction
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Many of the workers building the ice palace were happy to be busy, because so many jobs had been lost in the great Depression. The 1930s ice palaces were designed by city architects and built through the federal jobs program, Works Progress Administration or WPA.
Photographer: Minneapolis Star Journal Tribune
Date: January 27, 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…