HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW BOARD Historic Landmark Designation Case No
HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW BOARD Historic Landmark Designation Case No. 03-11 M.J. Uline Ice Company and Arena Complex 1132, 1140 and 1146 3rd Street, NW (Square 748, Lots 8, 9, 10, 11, 802, 809, 810, 811 and 812) Meeting Date: November 16, 2006 Applicant: D.C. Preservation League Affected ANC: 6C Staff Reviewer: Tim Dennée After careful consideration, the staff recommends that the Board approve the designation of the M.J. Uline Ice Company and Arena Complex as a landmark in the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites and that the Board forward the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. The M.J. Uline Ice Company building(s) The M.J. Uline Ice Company was founded by Migiel “Mike” Uline (originally Uihlein), lately the owner of a string of ice plants in Ohio. The main block of the company’s Washington ice plant was erected in the spring of 1931, with additions in 1935-1936. The brick structure is very simple and unremarkable from an architectural point of view, but typical of a rail-side, utilitarian, brick, industrial building of the period. Built by the Consolidated Engineering Company of Baltimore, the plant’s architects of record were of the firm Kubitz & Koenig, a construction engineering firm of Baltimore. Otto Kubitz and Martin Koenig, Jr., both civil engineers, partnered in the mid 1920s, but went their separate ways in the mid 1930s, likely as a result of a severe drop in construction during the Depression.1 Uline had purchased an ice manufacturing and delivery business that was failing and managed to turn it around, apparently through a combination of hard-headed business sense, innovation, obstinacy, luck—and likely collusion.
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