Merchants' National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa

This is my discovery for the week. I had never been to Grinnell, Iowa. It seemed a large brick building until you turned the corner and this fantastic terra cotta window and entry treated my eyes.
A little research when I got home told me about the wonder of this Jewel Box Bank and its architect, Louis Sullivan, of Adler and Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright's teacher creator of the Schlesinger & Mayer department store, now the Carsen Pirie Scott building in Chicago and the Chicago Board of Trade room.
This is an excellent place to start to learn about this building.



The detail in the building is extraordinary and I am very happy with the reach of the lens.


These pictures are taken with my new Kodak Z712IS and I am very satisfied with the reach of the zoom. My faithful old camera, the Kodak DX7440, veteran of 30,000 pictures, probably would have done just as well. More about the cameras another day.

Go out and take some pictures,
Kim

Pictures...and more pictures.

It has been quite awhile since my last post. Can it really be a more than a year already?
In the meantime, I have been taking pictures of all of my favorite subjects: family, kittens, Frank lloyd Wright and other architecture, bike racing, the students at the school I work at and scouting events.

Here is a picture of the outside of the Park Inn Hotel in Mason City, 1909 S.156. The interior picture is of the lobby. I chanced upon a great opportunity to be included in a tour of the hotel last month. Dr. Robert McCoy was my tour guide. I had spoken to him a couple times about the hotel and other matters FLW. It was a real pleasure to meet him. He is the driving spirit behind funding for renovation for this wonderful structure that actually was a model for other buildings to follow.

Now that I have recovered my username, password, and relearned how to post I will put some other pictures up.
Best wishes,
Kim