Built in 1903, the Ice House stored ice cut from Lake Lacawac year-round for use on the estate. Large square blocks harvested by local farmers hired by the Connells and later the Watres were stacked from floor to ceiling, with layers of saw dust providing insulation so the ice could last through the entire year. A hand operated crane on the southeast corner of the building hoisted ice into a trap door above the kitchen, where it slid along a special wooden shelf into the top of a vintage walk in ice box in the lodge. That ice box was built of local American Chestnut wood, highly resistant to moisture, and had walls more than a foot thick to keep perishables cold as the ice melted slowly. The building was so cold and well insulated that local people also hung harvested game animals inside to preserve them through the fall and winter and during periods when family members were not expected. In the 1950’s, windows and a second interior floor were added when the structure was converted into a winter cottage in the north country style for Arthur and Isabel Watres, reflecting a practice on Adirondack-style estates and ornate summer vacation homes in places such as Minnesota, Ontario, and Maine to pair a large summer house with a smaller heat efficient winter retreat. Today the Ice House houses guests and visiting research scientists. At the rear, the woodshed stored firewood for the lodge’s two fireplaces, allowing staff to pass cut logs through an outside door directly into a built-in wood box beside the parlor fireplace so the family did not have to go outside for wood and servants did not carry it through the parlor or dining room, reinforcing class separations.