Area Learning Center (Lakeville, Minnesota)

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This used to be the "All Saints School", and parking lot, prior to it becoming the "Area Learning Center".

(All Saints parking lot)
In the 1920s, Army troops occasionally camped overnight in this pasture owned by Carl Krause. Krause, whose house still stands across the street and is occupied by his son, also operated the local ice business from a large barn. In the wintertime, 2-foot by 4-foot blocks of ice were cut from Lake Marion with a crosscut saw and hauled on wagons or a sleigh to the ice house, a two-story barn-like building. The ice stacks began 8 to 10 feet below ground level and were built upward, with sawdust used to insulate and separate the blocks. In the spring and summer, the large ice blocks were cut into smaller ones that were delivered to homes and businesses to chill food kept in iceboxes. Delivery ceased in the 1940s, when most people have aquired refrigerators.