Built work
City National Bank Building and Park Inn Hotel
- Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Place
- Mason City, Iowa, United States
- Construction
- 1909–10
- Design / archive date
- 1908–09
- Catalogue reference
- FLWFA 0902 / S.155
Front of the Park Inn Hotel (right) and side of the City National Bank Building (left), located at 15 W. State Street and 4 S. Federal Avenue respectively in Mason City , Iowa , United States . Built in 1909, the Prairie School buildings are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Exterior of City National Bank Building in Mason City, IA. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Roof detail of City National Bank Building in Mason City, IA. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Exterior of City National Bank Building and Park Inn Hotel in Mason City, IA. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Architecture & history
The Historic Park Inn Hotel and City National Bank are two adjacent commercial buildings in downtown Mason City, Iowa, United States, designed in the Prairie School style by Frank Lloyd Wright. Completed in 1910, the Park Inn Hotel is the last remaining Frank Lloyd Wright-designed hotel in the world, of the six for which he was the architect of record. The City National Bank is one of only two remaining Frank Lloyd Wright-designed banks in the world. It was the first Frank Lloyd Wright-designed project in the state of Iowa, and today carries both major architectural and historical significance. In 1999, the Park Inn Hotel was named on the Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance's Most Endangered Properties List.
The Park Inn Hotel was the third hotel designed by Wright and served as the prototype for Midway Gardens in Chicago and the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, which was torn down in 1968.
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