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Iowa: Stay in a hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Built in 1910 to serve the banking, legal, and agricultural barons who were riding the wave of a booming farming industry, the Historic Park Inn Hotel is the last of six Frank Lloyd Wright–designed hotels still serving the public. After falling into disrepair, a local trust, Wright on the Park, renovated the structure and turned it into a 27-room boutique hotel that reopened in 2011. The renovation restored this historic building to its original splendor as a pristine example of Wright’s Prairie School style—a school of design that is especially identified with the city. Seventeen such structures in the area are on the National Register of Historic Places. —Calder Quinn