{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Metz Ice Plant | nrhp_type = | image = Metz Ice Plant DWG NPS.jpg | caption = Metz Ice Plant, February 2008 | location = Harford St., [[Milford, Pennsylvania]] | coordinates = {{coord|41|19|2|N|74|47|59|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Pennsylvania#USA | built = 1869, 1924 | architect OR builder = | architecture = Italianate | added = November 19, 2007 | area = {{convert|9.1|acre}} | refnum = 07001206<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} The '''Metz Ice Plant''', also known as the Jacob Klaer Gristmill and the Milford Ice and Refrigeration Company, is an historic ice manufacturing plant in the [[Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area]] in [[Milford, Pennsylvania|Milford]], [[Pike County, Pennsylvania]], United States.
It was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2007.<ref name="nris"/>
==History and architectural features== This historic structure is a late-nineteenth century [[grist mill]] that was converted to an ice manufacturing plant. The oldest section, which was built in 1869, is a {{frac|1|1|2}}-story, wood-frame building with a gambrel roof. Attached to it are two wood frame additions, the first of which was built between 1903 and 1927. Five smaller additions of [[concrete block]] construction were built between 1927 and 1950. Also extant is a [[penstock]] that carried water to the plant. The former grist mill was converted into an ice plant between 1924 and 1930. It remained in operation into the 1950s.<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996561 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania SP Metz Ice Plant|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |author= Douglas C. McVarish| date = n.d. | access-date=January 9, 2026 }} ({{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref>
==See also== * [[List of ice companies]]
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area}} {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania}}
[[Category:Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Industrial buildings completed in 1869]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Pike County, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Ice companies]] [[Category:1869 establishments in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Pike County, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area]]