Cool castles: Ice palaces of the Winter Carnival

The Winter Carnival ice palace of 1886.
The first Winter Carnival ice palace was built in 1886 at Central Park between Cedar and Minnesota streets (now a parking ramp for the State Capitol). It was illuminated at night with electric lights using color globes. It took three weeks and 200 men to build the 106-foot-tall palace.
Courtesy Bob Olsen