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MASON CITY
RIDE OF THE CENTURY
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
Experience
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MASON CITY, IOWA Mason City offers an array of award-winning attractions, from puppets to prairie school architecture, and an assortment of festivals uniquely blended with facilities catering to visitors. Our community is the hometown of Meredith Willson, composer of “The Music Man”. It is also home to Prairie School Architecture with several buildings in the community designed by Frank Lloyd Wright including the only remaining hotel in the world designed by Wright. The largest collection of Bil Baird’s puppets can also be seen in Mason City.
CANNONBALL 457 East Park, East State Street • (641) 423-5328 • www.friendsofthe457.org Built in 1912, this last remaining Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway steam locomotive – No. 457, the “Cannonball” – has been restored to reflect its appearance in the late 1920’s. Surrounded by the Cannonball Gardens, the site also features a relaxing landscape of terraces and patios. The Educational Plaza tells stories of local railroad history and the Orphan Train. Free Admission
