Wright on the Park Hotel and Music Man Square, Mason City, Iowa
Mason City is associated with several famous American icons. Among them: architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Music Man composer Meredith Willson.
Tour of The Historic Park Inn in Mason City, Iowa
ABC News' Josh Haskell tours the last hotel designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Quality Inn & Suites Mason City in Mason City IA
Website: . . .. .. ... . .. .. ... . . . . Quality Inn & Suites Mason City 410 5th Street Southwest Mason City IA 50401 The Quality Inn & Suites hotel is ideally located within walking distance of the popular Music Man Square entertainment area. This Mason City, IA hotel is minutes from the MacNider Art Museum, the Lime Creek Nature Center park, the North Iowa Fair facilities, the Surf Ballroom entertainment venue and Clear Lake State Park. Visitors won't want to miss Music Man Square, which is like a city within a city. This 30,000-square-foot facility, honoring trombonist Meredith Willson, features a 1912 streetscape with brick sidewalks and street lights. There is an old-fashioned ice cream parlor and museum. Reunion Hall seats 350 people. The Exploratorium is a functioning musical education center for young people. Make time for a walking tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's historic prairie homes and the Stockman House, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Southbridge Mall provides shopping near the hotel. A variety of restaurants and cocktail lounges are located in the surrounding area. This Mason City, IA hotel offers many full-service amenities and features, including: Free high-speed Internet access in all rooms, Free breakfast with hot waffles, Indoor pool. All guest rooms are nonsmoking and feature 32-inch flat-screen televisions, coffee makers, hair dryers, irons, ironing boards and cable television. Some rooms come equipped with microwaves, refrigerators and whirlpool bathtubs. Valet cleaning services and cold weather hook-ups are provided on the premises for added guest convenience.
Visit Mason City, Iowa
Watch and see why Mason City is such a great place to live or visit! This 9 minute video shows the exciting history of Mason City as well as attractions and activities for people of all ages.
Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites Mason City - Mason City, Iowa
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Welcome to the Holiday Inn Express and Suites Mason City, Iowa.
In Mason City, Iowa, the original River City, discover an array of award-winning attractions such as North Iowa Fairgrounds, MacNider Art Museum, Lime Creek Nature Center, Frank Lloyd Wright Stockman House, I-35 Speedway and Music Man Square in honor of Meredith Wilson, composer of The Music Man. Our Mason City hotel is a short drive to the Diamond Jo Casino in Northwood.
The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Mason City hotel is located in North Central Iowa just off I-35 in Cerro Gordo County, only a few miles from the beautiful Clear Lake State Park.
Let the Holiday Inn Express Mason City, Iowa be your host hotel for the annual Winter Dance Party honoring the legendary site of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. The Big Bopper Richardson's final concert.
The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Mason City hotel is conveniently located to Kraft Foods, North Iowa Mercy Health Center, Kaplan University, Armour Eckrich Meats, Union Pacific, Wood Harbor Doors & Cabinetry and Harley Davidson of Mason City.
Stay Smart while at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Mason City. We are the newest and most modern hotel offering free high speed internet, a hot breakfast buffet and Priority Club Points.
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The Last Wright: Preserving Frank Lloyd Wright's Legacy
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.
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Soon, scandal and tragedy would ruin his career, but the Park Inn would remain, one of his last Prairie style structures. This unique film traces the life, death, and possible rebirth of a Midwest downtown through the prism of the Park Inn.From 1926 to the present, the Park Inn witnessed alterations and downgrading, while Mason City dealt with an economic downturn in the 1960s and a decaying reputation in the 1970s. While the city struggled to fund renovations of the Frank Lloyd Wright hotel in the 1990s in an effort at heritage tourism, it also attempted an economic revival with a $20 million tribute to the musical comedy The Music Man, which was set there. As a last resort, the city decided to place the Park Inn on Ebay. Which vision of Mason City will prevail? Through a blend of rare archival footage, period music and a comparative look at stunning Wright masterpieces in the Midwest and Japan, The Last Wright raises issues of the sustainability of landmark structures and offers a provocative, ironic tapestry of a century in an American city.
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The Great Gildersleeve: Aunt Hattie Stays On / Hattie and Hooker / Chairman of Women's Committee
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.