File:CISTERNS AT REAR, LOOKING SOUTHEAST - Tift and Company, Ships Chandlery and Icehouse, Mallory Square, Key West, Monroe County, FL HABS FLA,44-KEY,8-3.tif

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CISTERNS AT REAR, LOOKING SOUTHEAST - Tift and Company, Ships Chandlery and Icehouse, Mallory Square, Key West, Monroe County, FL
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CISTERNS AT REAR, LOOKING SOUTHEAST - Tift and Company, Ships Chandlery and Icehouse, Mallory Square, Key West, Monroe County, FL
Depicted place Florida; Monroe County; Key West
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS FLA,44-KEY,8-3
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The northern building is the city's oldest commercial building, and was built by Amos C. Tift and Co. as a ships chandlery. The land on which the building was constructed was part of the Naval Yard during the Island's occupation by Commodore David Porter's anti-pirate squadron from 1823 to 1826. The southern building was built as an icehouse. Not until 1890 was artificial ice manufactured at Key West. Until that time, natural ice was shipped in specially built ships from the North. Ice was a vitally important commodity in the tropics for the relief of fever victims. The large cisterns in the rear of the buildings were used to collect rainwater which supplied ships calling at the port.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28
  • Survey number: HABS FL-176
  • Building/structure dates: 1841 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fl0148.photos.053010p
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Object location24° 33′ 19.01″ N, 81° 46′ 58.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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