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Hey, I'm Jocelyn and I'm in Mitchell, South Dakota at the Corn Palace and I am really pumped to be here
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I studied this building in my architectural history classes in college and I'm like, I'm so happy to finally see it in person because this place is amazing
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The Corn Palace was built in, well, this iteration was built in 1921 by Wrap and Wrap Architects of Chicago
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It's definitely Moorish revival. And these minarets and things have changed throughout the years
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The original ones were added in 1937. So there's a bit of the architectural history of this place
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But what's really cool for most people visiting are these murals. You can see behind me they've got one made in the likeness of the building
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On the other side there's Crazy Horse. Every one of these murals and they go all the way around the building
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They're even inside the building. they're all made out of dried corn and the original thought was to showcase South Dakota
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as a place of great agricultural capabilities right so they showed it all off all over the
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building and now you'll see um actually they're decorating right now for next year so we've
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gotten to see several of these that are in process you get to see the process of the artists putting
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them up. Right now, the artists that are working on this are students from Dakota Wesleyan University
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In the past, they've been local artists, and usually they work for about 10 to even 20 years
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at a time working on themes for this every year. So every year has its own theme, and right now
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they're putting up their centennial theme, and they've gone through all different things, and
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it just it really cool commemorating the history of this place and South Dakota and it just a great thing of pride for this state but the building itself is multi they use it for basketball games it actually was
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considered the first basketball arena in the upper Midwest there are also
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graduations people have meetings there are dances it's just all sorts of stuff
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so it's like a really great multi-purpose facility for the community and the greater Mitchell South Dakota area but it's also this cool place for
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all of us to come and see. More than half a million tourists come and visit this every year
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The thing you need to know is that really everything kind of ends at the end of August
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They strip off the old things and then they start putting them right back on and they're usually
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finished by the end of October. We're here at the end of September so we're halfway through that
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that point and most of them are done. There's just a couple that aren't quite finished yet
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But quite frankly for me that's been part of the coolest thing here is that I get to see this from a whole different perspective
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And I get to see these things going on and the work behind it and what the artist's renderings were before the corn actually takes shape and creates these great murals
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So while you're here in Mitchell and you're seeing this beautiful corn palace you should also stop in the downtown
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They've got some great quintessential, you know, Midwestern kind of architecture, but it's a cute downtown
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And it's worth seeing, especially if you're interested in that kind of stuff. There's also the prehistoric Indian village that you should check out
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Right now it's closed while we're here at this moment. But you should definitely go and learn something more about Native people in this area
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So I hope you guys will come and see this very cool Khorin Palace
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and just don't think that just because you've been here once that you've seen it
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because it changes every single year so come back for more good art see you later
