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1 online resource (51 min.) |
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Art and architecture in video |
| Summary |
By 1908, Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago. He traveled to Mason City, Iowa, to design a unique business block- a bank and an adjoining hotel, facing a park. Soon, scandal and tragedy would ruin his career, but the Park Inn Hotel would remain, one of his last Prairie style structures. From 1909 to 2008, The Park Inn witnessed alterations and downgrading, while Mason City dealt with a Dillinger Bank robbery in the 1930s, an economic downturn in the 1960s, and the label 'Porn City' in the 1970s. While the city struggled to fund renovations of The Park Inn in the 1990s in an effort at heritage tourism, it also attempted an economic revival with a 20 million dollar tribute to the musical comedy, 'The Music Man, ' based on Meredith Willson's boyhood in Mason City. As a last resort, the city decided to place the Park Inn on Ebay --IMDb |
| Notes |
Previously published as DVD |
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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 -- Homes and haunts -- Iowa -- Mason City
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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 fast |
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Park Inn Hotel (Mason City, Iowa)
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Architecture, Domestic -- Conservation and restoration -- Iowa -- Mason City
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Architecture, Domestic -- Conservation and restoration
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Buildings
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Homes
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Mason City (Iowa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works
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Mason City (Iowa) -- History
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Iowa -- Mason City
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documentary film.
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Documentary films
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History
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Pictorial works
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Carra, Lucille
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McGee, Garry, 1966-
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Filmakers Library, inc.
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Travelfilm Company
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