Built in 1921, with the dome and minarets added in 1937, in 1954 it went through major renovations for the harvest festival.
For generations Americans have celebrated the vast productivity of the land with Bunyanesque exhibits of food - cakes as big as cars, mountains of ice cream, scrambled eggs in a 14-foot frying pan. But the splashiest show of all is the gaudy Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, bedecked with mosaic made from colorful ears of corn. Since 1892 townspeople have gathered to nail ears in picture patterns to wooden panels on the palace walls. In the fall of 1955, the murals required some 50,000 ears, many specially grown for their color. The Palace opening and week-long festival of vaudeville and music drew nearly a quarter of a million visitors and netted Mitchell $22,000 profit.
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