Metz Ice Plant

The story

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The Metz Ice Plant is a building on Harford St. in Milford, Pike County. Built in 1869 as a mill in the Italianate style, it was renovated as an artificial ice plant in 1924-1930 and enlarged in 1956 with an addition for its water wheel.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2007 under criterion A, with local-level significance in industry. Its period of significance runs from 1869 to 1959, spanning August Metz, Jr.'s acquisition of the property in 1924.

Physical character

Its walls are weatherboard on a stone and limestone foundation, under a metal roof, with concrete and cork inside. The exterior retains a shallow-pitched gambrel roof, scrollsaw cut brackets, plain cornice boards and German siding. A millrace, a penstock or flume remnant and a concrete dam survive from its water-powered operation.

Historical context

Metz acquired the property in 1924, and it operated afterward as the Milford Ice and Refrigeration Company, renamed the Milford Ice Plant by 1938, before closing by 1959. The United States government acquired it in 1979 as part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, and it was vacant at the time of its listing.