Showing posts with label USA - South Dakota - Corn Palace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA - South Dakota - Corn Palace. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2015

South Dakota - Mitchell Corn Palace 2015, South Dakota's 125th

Mitchell Corn Palace
American Pride

Although the postcard doesn't say, this is from South Dakota's 125th Anniversary year in 2015. 

Friday, August 15, 2014

South Dakota - Mitchell, Corn Palace 1964

The World's only Corn Palace is located in Mitchell, South Dakota.  It is open free of charge to visitors from May through September.

Color Photo by Dorothy Prather
Dexter Press
1964

South Dakota - Mitchell, Corn Palace 1957

Greetings from the Corn Palace
Mitchell South Dakota

This is a Curteich Postcard that is from 1957. 

Monday, June 9, 2014

South Dakota - Corn Palace, 1951

The World's Only Corn Palace, Mitchell, S. D.
Original cost $275,000.00.  Redecorated annually at a cost of $10,000.00 in corn, grains and grasses.  The most marvelous exhibit of nature's wonderful colors blended into works of classic art by skilled decorators.

The annual festival is held the last week in September but the building is open FREE the year around.
1951

Friday, May 2, 2014

South Dakota - Mitchell, Corn Palace, 1957

The World's only Corn Palace
Mitchell, South Dakota

Photo by Rodney E. Prather
1957

South Dakota - Mitchell, Corn Palace, 1956

The World's only Corn Palace
Mitchell, South Dakota

Photo by Rodney E. Prather
1956

South Dakota - Mitchell, Corn Palace, 1955

The World's only Corn Palace
Mitchell, South Dakota

The World's only Corn Palace is a most colorful and unusual building.  It is completely redecorated every Fall with new colored grain and grass.  The building is open FREE to visitors each Summer.

Photo by Rodney E. Prather

This postcard is unused but has the following writing on the back:
Redecorating the exterior which is done every year.  Interior is decorated every two years.  Women were busy preparing bunches of wheat for the men - Aug. 10, 1955

Thursday, March 21, 2013

South Dakota - Mitchell, Corn Palace, 2009


World's Only Corn Palace 2009
Mitchell, SD

Eight years before the turn of the century, the World's Only Corn Palace was built on Mitchell's Main Street.  During it's hundred year existence, it has become known world wide and now attracts a half million visitors annually.  Thousands of bushels of corn, grain, and grasses are used to redecorate the Corn Palace each year.

Photo by Rich Stedman
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Here is a similar card also from 2009.

We were EAR!

World's Only Corn Palace, Mitchell, SD
Eight years before the turn of the century, the World's Only Corn Palace was built on Mitchell's Main Street.  During it's hundred year existence, it has become known world wide and now attracts a half million visitors annually.  Thousands of bushels of corn, grain, and grasses are used to redecorate the Corn Palace each year.

Photo by Rich Stedman

South Dakota - Mitchell, Corn Palace, 1999


1999 Corn Palace
Building a Nation

Illuminated the corn Palace leaves a lasting memory for all that see this breathtaking sight.
Mitchell, South Dakota