Horry Ice Company
1948-1978
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The Horry Ice Company building was constructed in 1948, adjacent to the McIver-Shaw Lumber Company. The longtime manager of the Horry Ice Company was Herbert Franklin "Hub" Stackhouse (1921-2009), a Citadel graduate and decorated World War II veteran (D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bronze Star recipient). William J. Baxley (1927-2008) was then manager of the Horry Ice Company in the early 1970s. Col. Baxley was a prominent figure in the history of Coastal Carolina University. A West Point graduate, highly decorated for his services in the Vietnam conflict, he was dean of the Wall College of Business and held other high administrative positions; Baxley Hall is named for him. The company closed by 1978, and McIver-Shaw Lumber Company bought the property in 1988.
Our organization purchased the property in December 2023 with plans to revitalize the historic brick building as a communal space for engaging with traditional arts, trades, and crafts. With the neighboring McIver-Shaw lumberyard serving as the base of deconstruction operations, the Icehouse property will serve as a creative space for practicing, teaching, and learning traditional skills. Skills such as carpentry, metalworking, glassworking, masonry, pottery, and kitchen-gardening were once considered essential cultural knowledge, but are now increasingly endangered by mass-production systems. In the drive for convenience, we risk losing our ability to make and grow the things we need, the creative satisfaction derived from such work, and the awareness of the value of our resources. Our ultimate vision is to strengthen our community by inspiring a more self-reliant circular economy capable of meeting basic needs and wasting less in the process.
Our organization purchased the property in December 2023 with plans to revitalize the historic brick building as a communal space for engaging with traditional arts, trades, and crafts. With the neighboring McIver-Shaw lumberyard serving as the base of deconstruction operations, the Icehouse property will serve as a creative space for practicing, teaching, and learning traditional skills. Skills such as carpentry, metalworking, glassworking, masonry, pottery, and kitchen-gardening were once considered essential cultural knowledge, but are now increasingly endangered by mass-production systems. In the drive for convenience, we risk losing our ability to make and grow the things we need, the creative satisfaction derived from such work, and the awareness of the value of our resources. Our ultimate vision is to strengthen our community by inspiring a more self-reliant circular economy capable of meeting basic needs and wasting less in the process.
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