Defrosting a 90 Year Old Fridge

Fulton Market Cold Storage Company building was constructed in 1920 and has been in operation ever since. The cold storage business has changed of late and now the company has decided to relocate. A bicycle component business is taking over the building, but first the entire structure needs to be defrosted, like a domestic freezer, to remove the accumulate ice of nine decades

IMAGE: Fulton Market Cold Storage Company. Photo by Brule Laker.

Detail of the interior - Photograph by Gary R. Jensen for Sterling Bay Companies, via Perkins + Will.

Timelapse video of the defrosting process - here

For a more complete report on the history of the building and the defrosting process - see Nicola Twilley's Edible Geography blog here