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| Mitchell South Dakota * The Corn Palace |
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The first corn palace to be built was in 1892 to attract immigrant farmers to settle there. Because of their bounty-est crops each fall they would decorate the building with cobs of different color corn cut in half and nailed to the sides of the building, along with other grains. Each year is a different theme. The patterns are designed by local artists. All the work is done by volunteers. On the right side of the main doors, you might be able to see a lift where they are working to complete that mural but had quit for the day. And two young boys were on scaffolding stripping off a old design right above the word celebrate.
These pictures were all along the side of the palace.
The building is home to the local high school basketball, stage shows, trade shows, and other community events. Roughly 275 thousand ears of corn, along with 3,000 bushels of rye, oat heads and sour dock (not sure what that is) are tied in bundles and attached between and below the pictures. You can't see them very well, but birds were perched on the ledge eating the corn kernels.
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| The inside murals are never changed. |
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| WE LOVE SOUTH DAKOTA |
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