Turnofthecentury Midwestern Corn Festivals Kiosks and Crop Art as American Icons

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Corn Palace
Street view of the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota
Full general data
Type	multi-purpose arena/facility
Location	604 Northward Main Street, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA
Coordinates	43°42′53″N 98°01′34″W / 43.714644°N 98.026019°Westward / 43.714644; -98.026019 Coordinates: 43°42′53″N 98°01′34″Westward / 43.714644°N 98.026019°West / 43.714644; -98.026019
Completed	1921 (dome and minarets added in 1937)
Top
Antenna spire	26.two m (86 ft) (flagpole)
Roof	twenty.7 m (68 ft) (dome)
Technical details
Floor count	2
Floor area	4,042.two thousand² (43,510 sq ft)
Blueprint and construction
Architect	Rapp & Rapp

The Corn Palace is a multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell, South Dakota. It is a pop tourist destination, visited by more than than 500,000 people each year.^[1] The Moorish Revival building is decorated with Crop art; the murals and designs covering the building are made from corn and other grains. Information technology also hosts the dwelling house basketball games of Dakota Wesleyan University and the Mitchell High Schoolhouse Kernels.

History

The original Mitchell Corn Palace (known equally "The Corn Chugalug Exposition") was built in 1892 to showcase the rich soil of Southward Dakota and encourage people to settle in the expanse. Information technology was a wooden castle structure on Mitchell's Chief Street. In 1904–1905, the city of Mitchell mounted a claiming to the city of Pierre in an unsuccessful attempt to replace it every bit the state uppercase of Southward Dakota. As part of this effort, the Corn Palace was rebuilt in 1905. In 1921 the Corn Palace was rebuilt once again, with a blueprint by the architectural firm Rapp and Rapp of Chicago. Moorish domes and minarets were added in 1937, giving the Palace the distinctive appearance that information technology has today. It costs $130,000 annually to decorate the Palace.

The outside corn murals are replaced and redesigned each year with a new theme. The designs are created past local artists. From 1948 to 1971 the artist Oscar Howe designed the panels. Calvin Schultz designed the murals from 1977 to 2002. Since 2003, the murals have been designed by Cherie Ramsdell. No new landscape was created in 2006 due to an farthermost drought.^[ii]

Too being a tourist attraction, the Corn Palace besides serves the local community as a venue for concerts, sports events, exhibits and other customs events. Each twelvemonth, the Corn Palace is historic with a citywide festival, the Corn Palace Festival. Historically it was held at harvest time in September, just recently it has been held at the finish of August. Other popular annual events include the Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo (in July) and the Corn Palace Polka Festival (in September). It is also home to the Dakota Wesleyan University Tigers and the Mitchell High Schoolhouse Kernels basketball teams.

The Corn Palace in Mitchell was preceded past several other grain palaces including: a Corn Palace in Sioux City, Iowa that was active from 1887–1891; a Corn Palace in Gregory, S Dakota; a Grain Palace in Plankinton, South Dakota; and a Bluegrass Palace in Creston, Iowa.

In 2004, national media attention was drawn to the Corn Palace, when it received Homeland Security funding. This drew criticism of the Department of Homeland Security and its grant plan. In 2007, the Corn Palace later received $25,000 in DHS funding for a camera system useful for purposes including Barack Obama's visit in 2008, and as reported by the Mitchell Commonwealth, to protect a "new Fiberglas statue of the Corn Palace mascot Cornelius" in 2009. This statue sits beyond Main Street, w of the Corn Palace.

Corn palace designs by yr

1907
2000
2003
2004 - Lewis & Clark
2008 - Everyday Heroes

Bibliography

Briggs, John Ely. "The Sioux Urban center Corn Palaces." The Palimpsest 44, no. 12 (1963): 549-62.

Cerney, January. Images of America: Mitchell's Corn Palace. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004.

"A Chronological History of the World's But Corn Palace." Mitchell, SD: CPD Distribution, 2001.

Guhin, Paula. The King of Corn, Cal Schultz: Having the Times of His Life. Aberdeen, SD: Prairie Home Printing, 2002.

Mitchell Bedchamber of Commerce. A Year by Yr History Of ... The Earth'southward Only Corn Palace. 5th ed. Mitchell, SD: Educator Supply Visitor, 1957.

Pennington, Robert. Oscar Howe: Creative person of the Sioux. Sioux Falls, SD: Dakota Territory Centennial Commission, 1961.

Rubin, Cynthia Elyce. "The Midwestern Corn Palaces: A 'Maize' of Item and Wonder." The Clarion (1983): 24-31.

Schwieder, Dorothy and Patricia Swanson, "The Sioux City Corn Palaces," Annals of Iowa 41, no. 8 (Spring 1973): 1209-1227.

Simpson, Pamela H. "Cereal Compages: Tardily-Nineteenth-Century Grain Palaces and Crop Art." In Building Environments: Perspectives in Colloquial Architecture, Volume Ten, edited by Kenneth A. Breisch and Alison Chiliad. Hoagland, 269-82. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.

Simpson, Pamela H. "Turn-of-the-Century Midwestern Corn Festivals: Kiosks and Crop Art as American Icons." Arris 14 (2003): 1-xv.

References

^ "Corn Palace History". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. http://spider web.archive.org/spider web/20070929180750/http://world wide web.cityofmitchell.org/palace/rent.htm . Retrieved 2007-10-xv.
^ Davey, Monica (2006-08-29). "Blistering Drought Ravages Farmland on Plains". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/usa/29drought.html?hp&ex=1156910400&en=a4f95604e6dbe65a&ei=5094&partner=homepage . Retrieved 2007-10-15.