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| The lobby, with mezzanine above requiring six-footers to bend a bit at registration. | The mezzanine with automatic player piano serendading visitors in the lobb;y, skylight room and on the mezzanine. | The Skylight Room viewed from the mezzanine. |
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The lobby is double-height until you reach check-in. So, too, is the Skiylight room tdouble-height..
The Ballroom (left) in morning sunlight. An adaptive reuse of the National Bank Building's large space. The restaurant (right) was not yet open but will eventually serve breakfast to those staying in the hotel (Ralph's Garden Cafe, which faces the National Bank Building, was a delightful alternative and should be visited for coffee and quiche in the morning, red dear meat at dinnertime. |
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The Law Offices, S.157, for James E Blythe and E E Markley (left); the table is a replica, lengthened so two additional chair could fit along the sides. The original is in the law office of Chip Kinsey.
Below, three "basement" rooms. |
| The bar | Billiards; hotel manager and Mrs Storrer | Wine room |
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| Above, the 4-post bed, as in Wright's day
Below a typical bedroom in the renovated hotel. All rooms are air conditioned and have smoke detectors, so purists may not be halppy. |
Above, the 4-poster is in one room only; the original rooms were small!
Below, connecting two original rooms allows for a sitting room to the bedroom. |
Above, a tyjpical bathroom. Bathrooms were share in 1910. Now every room has its own shower room
Below the jacuzzi in the honeymoon suite. |
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And, of course, there are excellent samples of Walter Burley Griffin's output, plus a fake Griffin
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Of course, we cannot leave Mason City without seeing Wright's Stockman house, S.139
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and, of course, a day-long side trip to Quasqueton is mandatory
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