THE LAST W R I G H T
AN A R C H I T E C T A HO T E L A C I T Y A C E N T U R Y
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For Sale
Press NPR article on the Park Inn Hotel
Credits The Last Wright IMDB page   
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The first project in any media about Frank Lloyd Wright's Park Inn Hotel - Iowa Motion Picture Association
"An emotionally powerful argument for sustainability - a manageable, respectful harmony with the world we've built and borrowed." In 1908, when Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago, he traveled to Mason City, Iowa, to design a unique, mixed-use city block - a bank and adjoining hotel facing a park. Soon scandal and tragedy would ruin his career, but the Park Inn Hotel would remain as one of his last Prairie style structures. Through rare archival footage, period music and a look at stunning Wright masterpieces, The Last Wright offers a provocative, ironic tapestry of an American century, tracing the life, death and rebirth of a Midwest town through the prism of The Park Inn. During the 20th century, The Park Inn faced alterations and degradation while Mason City dealt with a Dillinger Bank robbery in the 1930s, an economic downturn in the 1960s and the label Porn City in the 1970s. In an effort to promote heritage tourism, the city struggled to fund renovations of The Park Inn in the 1990s while attempting an economic revival with a $20 million tribute to the musical comedy, The Music Man, based on Meredith Willson's boyhood in Mason City. Which vision of Mason City history will prevail?
Directed by Lucille Carra |
