#ice tree

[danskjavlarna]

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Lots of weird stuff in my collection of vintage Christmas imagery.

[littlepawz]

Mother Nature loves playing with ice. Here, (I presume), we have an ice mushroom...or ‘iceshroom’?

[durchlauferhitzr]

[nkp1981]

"Ice Tree" photographed by Pete O'Hara

[carlthethoughtfulsoul]

It’s hard to find a nice spot to sit when they are covered in ice like this.

[hafanforever]

🎄⛄️❄️✨ Have a merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday, everyone! ✨❄️⛄️🎄

[abluecastle]

[detroithistoricalsociety]

You may be familiar with the annual Belle Isle Ice Tree that appears each winter on the northern side of the island.  The tradition actually has roots that go back to downtown Detroit in 1900.  It began on the median of Washington Boulevard, at Michigan Avenue, where the rocky fountain installed on that site would be allowed to run all winter long, producing a tower of ice.  On particularly chilly years, the fountain was said to have grown as tall as 60 feet!

Sometime before the 1930s, the practice has moved to Belle Isle.  The initial location on the island was a spot to the west of the Belle Isle Bridge, however soon after it was moved to the vicinity of Vista Drive--the location of the modern Ice Tree.

The practice was so popular as to inspire a similar effort in Evergreen Cemetery beginning in 1925.

Find more images of the ice fountains through our Online Collection.