[3] Built adjacent to the Great Northern railroad, the building was first used as office space for the Grand Forks Ice Company.

The company had been established in 1877 by John Lynch to supply ice to local customers, but by the turn of the 20th century it had grown to become a supplier of ice and coal for a larger region.

[2] Its architecture is characterized as Early Commercial and "Vernacular-Gothic Details.

"[1] Two other wholesale buildings in Grand Forks that were listed on the National Register, within the N. Third Street wholesale district, are the Grand Forks Mercantile Co. building, built in 1893, and the Iddings Block, built in 1892.

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