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	Corn Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original Mitchell Corn Palace (known as "The Corn Belt Exposition") was built in 1892 to showcase the rich soil of South Dakota and encourage people to settle in the area.
		In 1921 the Corn Palace was rebuilt once again, with a design by the architectural firm Rapp and Rapp of Chicago.
		The Corn Palace in Mitchell was preceded by several other grain palaces including: a Corn Palace in Sioux City, Iowa that was active from 1887–1891; a Corn Palace in Gregory, South Dakota; a Grain Palace in Plankinton, South Dakota; and a Bluegrass Palace in Creston, Iowa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corn_Palace (362 words)

	Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota
		The needle of the corn compass points to Mitchell, a prairie town that is corn crazy and proud of it.
		Corn Palace Week marks the end of the harvest - and the beginning of the planning for next year's Palace theme.
		The Palace is three blocks east of Hwy 37, at the corner of 6th and Main.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/SDMITcorn.html (458 words)

	deseretnews.com \| World's only Corn Palace bears fruit for South Dakota \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		The Corn Palace, first established in 1892, towers over Main Avenue in Mitchell, its yellow and green onion-shaped domes and orange minarets shining in the sun.
		The first festival was held in 1892, when officials built a wooden palace, covered it with grains and grasses and topped it with wooden minarets.
		The Corn Palace is a multi-use center for Mitchell and the region, hosting stage shows, basketball games, farm machinery shows, polka parties and other events.
	www.deseretnews.com /dn/print/1,1442,595075468,00.html (840 words)

	Corn Palace
		The Corn Palace is located in Mitchell, SD which is known as "the Corn Capital of the World".
		The Corn Palace is built of reinforced concrete and covered with thousands of bushels of corn.
		The annual Corn Palace Festival marks the end of the harvest and beginning of planting for next year.
	www.agilitynut.com /h/cornpalace.html (277 words)

	Corn Palace: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It consists of a building that is adorned with images and patterns made from corn and other grains.
		The Corn Palace in Mitchell was founded in 1892.
		The Corn Palace in Mitchell was predicated by several other grain palaces including: a Corn Palace in Sioux City[For more, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Co/Corn_Palace.htm (230 words)

	The World's Only Corn Palace
		The original Corn Palace, called "The Corn Belt Exposition" was established in 1892.
		The Corn Palace serves as a multi-use center for the community and region.
		The World's Only Corn Palace is an outstanding structure which stands as a tribute to the agricultural heritage of South Dakota.
	www.cornpalace.org /newpages/palace.html (228 words)

	American Profile: 9/30/2001 - 10/6/2001: Corn Artist Extraordinaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His medium is corn, with 30,000 bushels of small grain and a common weed or two thrown in for good measure.
		The open pollinated corn is white, three shades of red, three shades of brown, calico, orange variegated, and blue.
		After the corn is harvested, Schultz’s finished paintings are projected onto large rolls of fl roofing paper and the enlarged scenes are traced by his daughter, Paula Guhin, an art teacher in Aberdeen, with a white felt-tipped pen.
	www.americanprofile.com /issues/20010930/20010930mid_1346.asp (700 words)

	Corn Palace
		I had remembered seeing one or two signs in Iowa for The Corn Palace, although my interest had not been tethered, at least at the onset.
		I pictured it as a giant ear of corn, maybe 10 stories tall and a half of a block wide with a top of turned out green husks and golden-brown corn silk.
		I decided that I had embarked on this endeavour at too late of a date; corn was not in season, since the fields were frozen.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/7973/corn_palace.htm (771 words)

	South Dakota’s Corn Palace keeps popping (printable version)
		FLAPPING: Flags adorning the Corn Palace blow in the breeze May 6, 2004, in Mitchell, S.D. The tourist attraction, redecorated each year with corn cobs, grain and grasses, is host to about 500,000 visitors each year.
		The first festival was in 1892, when officials built a wooden palace, covered it with grains and grasses and topped it with wooden minarets.
		Although the Corn Palace does attract plenty of tourists, local residents benefit from it as well.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=72990 (938 words)

	ProgressiveFarmer.com: [Land and Farmstead Article] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She spoke of a time when it was a treat to head to Mitchell and have picnics at the Corn Palace.
		The Corn Palace was built in 1892 to house a "Corn Belt Exposition," an event that was designed to revitalize immigration to South Dakota and prove to farmers that abundant corn and wheat could be grown in the state.
		The indoor murals at the Corn Palace are replaced less often (the last major redecorating was done in the early 1990s).
	www.progressivefarmer.com /farmer/land/article/0,19846,1034464,00.html (726 words)

	Mitchell - Corn Palace Rental Fees / Capacity
		The city's first Corn Palace was build in 1897 as a way to prove to the world that South Dakota had a healthy agricultural climate.
		The palace was conceived as a gathering place where city residents and their rural neighbors could enjoy a fall festival with extraordinary stage entertainment – a celebration to climax a crop-growing season and harvest.
		The Palace is redecorated each year with naturally colored corn and other grains and native grasses to make it “the agricultural show-place of the world”.
	www.cityofmitchell.org /palace/rent.htm (557 words)

	Corn becomes art at palace - The Washington Times: Travel - June 05, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Corn Palace, first established in 1892, towers over Main Street in Mitchell, its yellow-and-green onion-shaped domes and orange minarets shining in the sun.
		These palaces were built for harvest festivals and to prove the prairie really could produce crops.
		The Corn Palace is a multiuse center for Mitchell and the region, hosting stage shows, basketball games, farm machinery shows, polka parties and other events.
	www.washtimes.com /travel/20040604-075052-9748r.htm (969 words)

	Mitchell - Corn Palace Rental Policy
		All persons and organizations desiring to use the Corn Palace shall be required to enter into a written contract in the form required by the City of Mitchell for such purposes.
		The user fees for use of the Corn Palace shall be in conformance with the schedule of fees from time to time in effect, and listed on a separate schedule of fees.
		If Corn Palace Director is notified of said cancellation in writing within ten (10) days prior to User's scheduled use of the Corn Palace, the City of Mitchell will refund the twenty-five percent (25%) deposit made by User to the City of Mitchell.
	www.cityofmitchell.org /palace/policy.htm (1483 words)

	s m u g - mysterydate
		The very first Corn Palace was built in 1892, to encourage immigration to South Dakota by demonstrating the fertility of the prairie land around Mitchell.
		The outside of the Corn Palace is completely covered with vast murals that change every year.
		Sure, some of the gift shop souvenirs are a little on the tacky side, with dioramas of anthropomorphic cobs of corn plucking guitars and dancing, but at the heart of it, the Corn Palace stands as a monument to the agricultural heritage of the prairies.
	www.smug.com /current/mystery.html (825 words)

	The Corn Palace
		Built in 1892 in Mitchell, South Dakota, the Corn Palace was created to dramatically display the products of the harvest of South Dakota's farmers, in murals on the outside of the building.
		The murals are made from thousands of bushels of corn and other grains and grasses such as wild oats, rye, straw, and wheat.
		The Corn Palace is a great tourist attraction and a meeting place for the community.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/sd/corn_1 (150 words)

	Corn Palace Festival, Mitchell, SD, USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An organic structure, it was the place where successful farmers would come with their fruits, grains and vegetables, which were then attached to the exterior of the building, thus proving the fertility of South Dakota soil.
		At this annual August festival, locals celebrate the harvest by redecorating the Corn Palace.
		Over 275,000 ears or corn are used every year to make thirteen large murals on the outside walls of the building.
	www.2camels.com /festival170.php3 (303 words)

	Mitchell - Corn Palace
		Each year the exterior panels of the Corn Palace are decorated with locally grown corn.
		The Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo is celebrating 35 years and is one of South Dakota's premier rodeos.
		Every third weekend in July thousands of people gather here to attend the nightly PRCA rodeo performances, as well as the many other entertaining activities that are provided throughout Rodeo Week.
	www.cityofmitchell.org /palace (1234 words)

	Corn Palaces \| Sioux City History
		The windows were framed with ears of corn strung on wires and the roof was thatched with stalks of grain.
		She carried a corn stalk scepter and she stood at the top of a golden stairway made of corn.
		Not long before the palace opened to the public, the Corn Palace Board of Control saw the tremendous response to the Corn Palace Jubilee.
	www.siouxcityhistory.org /cornpalace/more.php?id=31_0_5_0_M (893 words)

	Corn Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Does not matter, what the ads say, but it is hardly worth to go to South Dakota to see that "world's only" Corn Palace.
		Palace walls are covered mosaic pictures made with corn, grasses and grains of South Dakota and get redecorated every year with new crops.
		The first Corn palace was built in 1892, when Mitchell was a a small, 12 years old city.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~boris/photo/trip_to_the_west/corn_palaceE.html (239 words)

	Corn Palace of Mitchell South Dakota
		The first corn palace was built in 1892 to encourage immigration to South Dakota by showing that corn and other grains could be grown on the prairie around Mitchell.
		The Corn Palace has been featured in many books and articles about "roadside architecture" and has been called everything from kitsch to fabulous.
		Incidentally, corn growing has become something of a high art form around Mitchell, where one farm produces almost all the colored corn used to decorate the building.
	www.rosyinn.com /5100a79.htm (171 words)

	General Information About the World's Only Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota
		The 2003 Corn Palace Festival was one of the best years on record for attendance and revenue.
		I mean, when we were driving across the country, all we had to do is say Corn Palace and people immediately identified not only with the State of South Dakota, but the hardy pioneer spirit of the Dakota people.
		The Corn Palace was a rocking when Tom Jones took to the stage on Friday, August 29th.
	www.cornpalacefestival.com /generalinformation.html (889 words)

	Travel - StatesmanJournal.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		To get to the Corn Palace, take exit 332 or exit 330 north and follow the signs.
		The Corn Palace is at 604 N. Main.
		Strand can't say how many ears of corn go on the walls - partly because some disappear into the hands of tourists, or "guests from out of state," as he calls them.
	travel.statesmanjournal.com /articles/0526cornpalace-ON.html (960 words)

	Corn Palace
		The exterior and interior murals are designed by local artists and created each year from thousands of bushels of corn, grain, grasses, wild oats, rye, straw and wheat.
		The Palace is also a sports arena, serving as the home court for the local high school basketball team, "The Kernals".
		Enigma that it is, the Corn Palace is a neat little break during that long drive across I-90.
	users.saferinternet.com /wildebeest/corn_palace.htm (310 words)

	America's Heartland - Episode 101 - The Corn Palace
		The first Corn Palace was built of wood and ears of corn in 1892, decades after Lewis and Clark declared the area unfit for farming.
		The gimmick worked so well that construction on a larger Corn Palace began in 1905 and was supplanted by another in 1921.
		See the Corn Palace for yourself on its live web cam at www.cornpalace.org Look for the small camera icon on the upper right side of the home page.
	www.americasheartland.org /episodes/episode_101/corn_palace.htm (399 words)

	The Ample Traveler©: The Corn Palace
		The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota is that kind of a place and more.
		On the evening The Ample Traveler© arrived, the palace was holding a polka concert and dance.
		The Corn Palace is one of those reminders that not everything fun or playful comes from Hollywood.
	threewisetwins.com /ampletraveler/2004_10/cornpal.htm (452 words)

	The Sun, Sunnyvale's Newspaper \| The Francia Brothers' Corn Palace
		To visit the Corn Palace, located next to their 20-acre farm right off Lawrence Expressway, is to step back into time in the South Bay when orchards and farms were the booming businesses of 'Silicon Valley.' 'We're the last of the Mohicans,' Joe Francia says.
		Besides growing corn, both yellow and white, they also grow tomatoes, sugar beets, apricots, cherries, zucchini and many other types of fruits and vegetables in Sunnyvale and on their 27 acres of land in Mountain View.
		But those, who wish to get a taste of the way things were or just some fresh fruit right from the source, can take that quick turn off the beaten path and find the Francia family working hard in the fields, or joking with customers in front of their stand from 5 a.m.
	www.svcn.com /archives/sunnyvalesun/11.29.00/cover-0048.html (839 words)

	KELOLAND.COM: News for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The faded corn is stripped, the murals are removed and workers prepare the building for a new year.
		The theme for 2006: Salute to Rodeo, in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Corn palace Stampede.
		The other year was 1943...all the nation's grain was needed for the war effort so the murals on the corn palace were painted instead.
	www.keloland.com /News/NewsDetail5442.cfm?Id=0,42639 (764 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - CORN AND GRASS (Travel)
		She and her husband had made a third stop at the Corn Palace en route to Mount Rushmore in western South Dakota.
		The first festival was held in 1892, when officials built a wooden palace, covered it with grains and grasses and topped it with wooden minarets.;
		The Corn Palace is a multi-use centre for Mitchell and the region, hosting stage shows, basketball games, farm machinery shows, polka parties and other events.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/weekend/2004/June/weekend_June23.xml§ion=weekend&col= (863 words)

	Neil Sedaka wows Corn Palace crowd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		OLD-TIME ROCKER Neil Sedaka wowed a large crowd at the Corn Palace on Thursday night.
		But some do refer to Sedaka as the king of the "tra la las" or the "doobie doos," and he showed why Thursday night at the Corn Palace.
		Corn Palace Director Mark Schilling said there were 1,851 tickets sold for the concert, but that nearly 2,000 were in attendance due to ticket giveaways and other promotions.
	www.btinternet.com /~stevenanorman/sedaka/cornpalace.htm (347 words)

	The Maize Page General Information
		The corn refining process (wet milling), featuring an illustrated walk through these steps: inspection, cleaning, steeping, germ separation, fine grinding, screening, starch separation, syrup conversion and fermentation.
		Is there a difference between "maize" and "corn?" The two words have completely different origins, but they refer to the same plant.
		Corn in the Classroom, featuring ideas for classroom projects and a store of factual information regarding the history and uses of the crop.
	maize.agron.iastate.edu /general.html (1001 words)

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