This site began as a meat market in 1906 and then became the Ice House. Ice was originally brought down from the "ice pond" in the hills and stored here. Later it was manufactured at the ice plant in 300 pound blocks that were scored, cut, and distributed to local ice boxes. The site was also home to a soda bottling plant, where Leak, Mason, and Turner soda waters were bottled for use at many local resorts. It was the first concrete building in Upper Lake and survived the fire of 1924.