Today's images are of the City National Bank building in Mason City, Iowa. This and the adjoining structure, the historic Park Inn Hotel, were designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1910. The lighting accessory featured above along with the interior and exterior images below show various elements of his widely-known Prairie Style. Currently the former bank is a two-story ballroom that contains reproductions of the above Mercury statues, three original skylight art-glass panels and the grillework doors in front of the glass doors. Regarding the Mercury (the ancient god of trade and commerce) light fixtures, originally the room had four and now they are located at the entrances. In 2011 the doors to this last-standing hotel designed by Wright reopened to the public.
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