World’s Only Corn Palace
Mitchell, SD | 325 Miles
If you want to visit the World’s Only Corn Palace—and who wouldn’t?—you have to come to Mitchell, South Dakota. In earlier times, corn palaces were actually quite popular; between the 1880s and 1930, as many as 34 such buildings—including the one in Mitchell, which opened in 1892—dotted agricultural communities throughout the Midwest.
Nowadays Mitchell boasts the last remaining Corn Palace (hence the “World’s Only” in its name) and attracts half a million visitors each year. A Moorish Revival structure featuring minarets and onion-shaped domes, its facade is decorated with huge murals made of corn, grains, and native grasses. The murals, which change yearly, are created using 12 different natural shades of corn that are nailed ear by ear to the building’s exterior.
Originally published in 2022.
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