The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-10-03
The Ccra Palace.
From Sioux cis1 journal.

1Ec NSlu IHiaSS.
From siuux City Journal.
The oft-rcpcatcd assertion that the
Corn Palace must be seen to be APP
preciated is douhly true Of this one.
No words can describe 1T; no likeness
can reproduce its beauty. The architect
aud the artist worked hand in hand to
produce symmetrical and har.
monious structure, and there is not a
fault in it. The chief decorative
material is corn, Of course, not merely
the prosaic yellow ears, but corn of al!
krnls--ye'low. red, white, blue, black.
strawbevry roam, Plymouth rock
speck!cd, red and l,lue notified, pop
corn OF many kinds, the stalks of corn,
the tassels of corn, corn in musk, the
husks themselves, the silks, broom corn
and curi,-cobs. then the artist has
used many other proiuc.s Of the soil
in decoration, suchs as wheat, oats,
niiitct. flax. cate, gcuras, pumpkins,
rye and reeds. The wonder is that no
cns ever bcf rS thought out the many
beautiful things that can DC made out
OF these substances.
What is the general plan? There is
none, except To g,t as many prctt:
and novel designs as possible. and not
to duplicate them. FIRST is tn. dome,
Tie most imposing spectacle of all
Right in the center of the roof it Is
placed, first IL great globe resting
directly upon the roof, globe nearly
iisy feet in diameter. This is covered
all over with corn, is ribbed like 1,
giolc and has a map of ccn-
tinent spread out over it, with North
America occupying the front, Iowa
conspicuous and Sioux C!tys location
plainly visible to all. he top of this
globe is iiattsned and from it rises
sight coinnMs, fifteen OF twenty feet,
supporting Il huge circular table, oi,
top of which is the upper DOME, a sou,
OF Turkish mosque affair, two stories
high. 1T is snrmoantcd by the tlas
staff. The whole dome is covered
with corn and rye, and the openings
between the columns are fastened
with corn.
The neat most important thing is
| the .iS smaller towers. tilree on eacI, OF
tie fronts. These are 12p feet his!
and fourteen feet square. For fort,
feet up they are solid and then there
is j. distance or open framework sup.
porting the upper portion. The face
vi a:.s! OF these presents a good sur
lace tor large designs. On fort;, O!
The first design i, that of a huge
flag. ao,.e i'll red. white ard blue corn
ans! these are surrounded by l.andson.
borders worked oat III corn
giving iiie appearance of a picture il,
III fia:iie. On two of the towers til,
oinaF@ntation of the hase is the tiguel
Of! large ear Of corn standing erect o,
4 pedestal. The open framework o,
each tower is decorated with rye ant
with fes!oons of corn in long ropes
The cap Of each tower presents foul
iia. s,ir!aces covered with cane stalks
giving bright green background, o,
which is ;hc representation of Gu.
tain gracefully looping over a pole, ,th,
whole worked ont in blue and whit,
corn. The roof OF each tower is covere,
with corn in diamond shape block
/. and other dcsigncs. There is S,.ea
Of WHEAT at t!is base Of each llag pole
Between the rear tower on eithc
side aud tie middle one are the si..
entrances. These dnorways are boar
archways raising toa point abov,
Then there are smaller arches Just ii,
side OF the largest one, and SO on to tn
smallest. forming settles OF arches al
covered with corn. Tile broad side
of the building over these entrance ar
covered with the design Of 4 spreadin
eagle. This eagle, with wings out
stretched twenty or twenty-five fee
bearing the arrows and the lag an
the branches, is one of the most stirl
ing figures Of the whole exterior. TIL
eagle is all made Of corn and the yav
J. ious co'ors are so worked in that it
y really handsome representation
The ground work all around is mao
of flax, giving dull brown surfac
bringing out more clearly the colo
of the bright corn. The eagle d
. signs are the largest single figures q
the Palace and will attract general a
tention both for their size and the pc
fection with which the details al
worked out.
Above the eagles is small ba!cor
and alcoves which admits of gre
1 variety of crnamentation. Betwet
the first tower ON each side, and ii
middle ones there is an outside balco,
about eight feet wide and rail-,
along the outside. Entrance from u
gallery is gained to this through