Henry Kinder Sr. built this ice house about 1910, shortly after buying this farm and moving from Curtis Bay to Millersville. It provided a cool place to store meats, eggs, milk, and canned goods, with ice likely kept upstairs and food items downstairs. The walls formed an insulated storage bin inside the building, where ice was stacked and covered with sawdust and straw insulation. Boards in the center section of the ice wall were removed to load ice, which was lifted and dragged with large hooks or tongs hanging from the walls. The ice pile cooled the room below where milk and other perishables were stored, and as the ice melted the water drained across the floor and through a hole to the left. Ice in the building could remain frozen until late spring. By the 1940s, when indoor refrigeration was available, it still kept a few foods but was used mostly for storage of medicines needed for animal care.