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An area of Green Lake near Spicer, Minn., is cleared of snow Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, in preparation for ice harvest. About 4,000 blocks of ice will be cut from the lake for construction of the St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace in Rice Park. (Courtesy of Darrin Johnson / St. Paul Winter Carnival)

An area of Green Lake near Spicer, Minn., is cleared of snow Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, in preparation for ice harvest. About 4,000 blocks of ice will be cut from the lake for construction of the St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace in Rice Park. (Courtesy of Darrin Johnson / St. Paul Winter Carnival)

A team of people from Park Construction, Park Avenue Trucking, Xcel Energy and Wee Kut will take part in the ice block project. (Courtesy of Darrin Johnson / St. Paul Winter Carnival)

A team of people from Park Construction, Park Avenue Trucking, Xcel Energy and Wee Kut will take part in the ice block project. (Courtesy of Darrin Johnson / St. Paul Winter Carnival)

An area of Green Lake near Spicer, Minn., is cleared of snow Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, in preparation for ice harvest. About 4,000 blocks of ice will be cut from the lake for construction of the St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace in Rice Park. (Courtesy of Darrin Johnson / St. Paul Winter Carnival)

An area of Green Lake near Spicer, Minn., is cleared of snow Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, in preparation for ice harvest. About 4,000 blocks of ice will be cut from the lake for construction of the St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace in Rice Park. (Courtesy of Darrin Johnson / St. Paul Winter Carnival)

St. Paul Winter Carnival royalty Lindsay Jo Sandoval, Aurora Queen of Snows, left, and Jason Bradshaw, King Boreas, reveal an image of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace during a news conference at the St. Paul Hotel in downtown St. Paul on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. The ice palace will be built in St. Paul's Rice Park as part of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival. The palace will be part of an extended St. Paul Winter Carnival to be held Jan. 25 - Feb. 10, 2018 to connect with Super Bowl activities.

St. Paul Winter Carnival royalty Lindsay Jo Sandoval, Aurora Queen of Snows, left, and Jason Bradshaw, King Boreas, reveal an image of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace during a news conference at the St. Paul Hotel in downtown St. Paul on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. The ice palace will be built in St. Paul's Rice Park as part of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival. The palace will be part of an extended St. Paul Winter Carnival to be held Jan. 25 - Feb. 10, 2018 to connect with Super Bowl activities. (Pioneer Press / John Autey)

The St. Paul Winter Carnival unveiled the design for an ice palace that will be built in Rice Park as part of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival. The palace will be part of an extended carnival to be held Jan. 25 – Feb. 10, 2018, to connect with Super Bowl activities. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter Carnival)

The design for the ice palace that will be built in Rice Park. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter Carnival)

The People’s Ice Palace will be built on the south side of St. Paul’s Rice Park. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter Carnival)

he ice palace will be built on the south side of Rice Park. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter Carnival)

Jaime DeLage
By | jdelage@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press

A construction crew for the St. Paul Winter Carnival ice palace will begin cutting blocks of ice from Green Lake on Wednesday, but first the ice surface had to be prepared for work.

The carnival’s volunteer photographer Darrin Johnson took drone photos Monday of a crew clearing snow off the harvest area near Spicer, Minn.

A team of workers from Park Construction, Park Avenue Trucking, Xcel Energy and Wee Kut will harvest ice this week, and the first blocks are expected to arrive in Rice Park by Saturday. The ice palace will require about 4,000 blocks, which will be transported to St. Paul on flatbed trucks. Construction of the seven-story palace will take about two weeks.

The ice palace will be a free attraction as part of the annual winter celebration, which will be extended an extra week (Jan. 25-Feb. 10) to coincide with Super Bowl festivities in Minneapolis.

RELATED: Winter Carnival will have a seven-story ice palace after all

You can support construction of the ice palace by sponsoring a block of ice for $25 at wintercarnival.com.

Copyright 2018 Pioneer Press.

The St. Paul Winter Carnival unveiled the design for an ice palace that will be built in Rice Park as part of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival. The palace will be part of an extended carnival to be held Jan. 25 – Feb. 10, 2018, to connect with Super Bowl activities. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter Carnival)

The St. Paul Winter Carnival unveiled the design for an ice palace that will be built in Rice Park as part of the 2018 St. Paul Winter Carnival. The palace will be part of an extended carnival to be held Jan. 25 – Feb. 10, 2018, to connect with Super Bowl activities. (Courtesy of the St. Paul Winter Carnival)

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