{"nrhp_refnum":"83001851","name":"Fayetteville Ice and Manufacturing Company:Plant and Engineer's House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"436 Rowan St. and 438 Rowan St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.060181312000054,"lon":-78.88294635099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick ice-manufacturing plant built about 1908, with a frame wagon and auto shed and a one-story engineer's house, at 436-438 Rowan Street in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The complex illustrates the type of industrial plant built locally to supply ice and coal for the heating and cooling needs of the rail network and of everyday life around 1900. It still uses the original ice-making process, and the plant, engineer's house, shed and grounds together make up a complete ice-manufacturing operation.","narrative":"Built around 1908 at Rowan and Hillsborough streets in Fayetteville, this brick ice plant was the second home of the Fayetteville Ice and Manufacturing Company, incorporated in 1899. It has three main sections: an ice storage room, a freezing tank room and an engine room, all expanded over the years. The complex also includes a frame wagon and auto shed and a one-story engineer's house with a hip roof, Tuscan-columned porch and fine interior plasterwork. Railroad tracks ran beside the plant, and trains carrying fruit and vegetables stopped to be iced down from a long platform. The company sold ice and coal to homes, businesses and railroads, and later operated as Colonial Ice Company. When nominated, the plant still made ice much as it had early in the century, using ammonia compressors and brine-cooled freezing tanks, and the plant engineer still lived on site. It was listed for showing how essential ice production was to daily life and rail transport, and as a complete ice-manufacturing complex.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1908","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Turn-of-the-century industrial architecture (plant); simple one-story center-hall house with Tuscan-column porch (engineer's house)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"At the time of the nomination the plant was still operating as the Home Ice Company, making ice by the original process, and the engineer still lived in the house on the premises. The wood shop and storage shed once attached to the wagon shed are gone, and the railroad canopy has been removed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.664664-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/7176/47717603/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001851.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717603","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayetteville_Ice_and_Manufacturing_Company:_Plant_and_Engineer%27s_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18210222"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/fayetteville-ice-and-manufacturing-company-plant-and-engineers-house-83001851/"}