Spring house

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This article is about the structure. For the Pennsylvania town, see Spring House, Pennsylvania.

A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building used for refrigeration once commonly found in rural areas before the advent of electric refrigeration. It is usually a one-room building constructed over the source of a spring. The water of the spring maintains a constant cool temperature inside the spring house throughout the year. In settings where no natural spring is available, another source of natural running water, such as a small creek or diverted portion of a larger creek, may be used. The main use of a spring house is for the long-term storage of food that would otherwise spoil, such as meat, fruit or dairy products.

[edit] See also

• Icehouse (building)
• Windcatcher

[edit] References

• In the Wake: Cool Food Storage (from Tools for Gridcrash). Retrieved on 2007-05-13.

• Hopewell Furnace NHS -- Virtual Tour. Retrieved on 2007-05-13.

• The Spring house. Retrieved on 2007-05-13.