- Spring house
A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building used for
refrigeration once commonly found in rural areas before the advent of electric refrigeration. It is usually a one-room building constructed over the source of a spring. The water of the spring maintains a constant cool temperature inside the spring house throughout the year. In settings where no natural spring is available, another source of natural running water, such as a small creek or diverted portion of a larger creek, may be used. The main use of a spring house is for the long-term storage of food that would otherwise spoil, such as meat, fruit or dairy products.ee also
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Icehouse (building)
*Windcatcher References
*Cite web
title = In the Wake: Cool Food Storage (from Tools for Gridcrash)
accessdate = 2007-05-13
url = http://www.inthewake.org/b1cool.html*Cite web
title = Hopewell Furnace NHS -- Virtual Tour
accessdate = 2007-05-13
url = http://www.nps.gov/archive/hofu/TOUR/17.html*Cite web
title = The Spring house
accessdate = 2007-05-13
url = http://waltonfeed.com/old/springhs.html
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