Fund raising has begun to collect the matching funds that will unlock the $9 million Vision Iowa grant from the State of Iowa. Nearly $8 million of that will go towards two Frank Lloyd Wright projects (restoration of the Park Inn Hotel and a visitor’s center for the Stockman House).
Jean Marinos, president of Wright on […]
[Later update: Thanks to commenter Paul, we now know the specifics: $7.5 million will be given (provided matching funds are raised) to the Park Inn, $250,000 will go to the visitor’s center and the rest goes to other projects in Mason City.]
[Update: Reading something else, I’m not sure the source I used below was correct. […]
The Washington Post has a sort-of review of a new film about the preservation of the Park Inn in Mason City, Iowa The Last Wright. The film is playing at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C.
Carra’s hour-long film, which is unfortunately rather muddled in its effort to draw together too many threads, shows the […]
I don’t generally mention The Frank lloyd Wright Quarterly. If you subscribe, you already know what’s in the current issue, and if you aren’t a member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, since the content isn’t on-line, you can’t read it, so there really isn’t any point in mentioning it.
But the Winter 2008 issue is […]
United States Senator Tom Harkin will visit the Park Inn Hotel on Thursday to view the restoration efforts. Senator Harkin recently secured Federal funds for the restoration of the adjacent City National Bank building, also designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Update: Wrong: a staffer for Sen. Harkin will visit the site, not the Senator himself. Sorry.
Thanks to Congressman Tom Latham (R - I hate when Republicans do stuff I like), Wright in the Park, the group restoring Mason City’s Park Inn, will receive $400,000 in Federal funding.
Now that I think of it, a Frank Lloyd Wright political action committee would be a great idea — maybe FrankPAC. And, since I’m […]
A board that forwards requests for tourism dollars to the state has voted to send the $9 million request from Mason City, Iowa onto negotiations. The funds make up nearly 1/3 of the planned $33 million budget.
Community leaders are hoping the state board, which funds tourist attractions, will pitch in $9 million to help with […]
The group that is restoring the Park Inn in Mason City, Iowa has purchased the adjoining City National Bank building (the hotel and bank were both designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as one complex) and has plans to restore it as well. The purchase included art glass windows original to the building.
Wright in the Park, Inc., […]