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Mason City is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The population was 29,172 at the 2000 census (2005 estimate 27,909) and has stayed close to 30,000 since 1995. It is the county seat of Cerro Gordo County. It is the home of the North Iowa Area Community College and Hamilton College.

Mason City is located in North Central Iowa, in Cerro Gordo County, only a few miles from beautiful Clear Lake. The community is the hometown of Meredith Willson, composer of "The Music Man". Plus, the area is legendary as it was the final site of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson's concert. Mason City is also home to Prairie School Architecture with several buildings in the community designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The largest collection of Bil Baird's puppets can also be seen in Mason City.

Area Attractions:
Lime Creek Nature Center
Cerro Gordo County Wind Farm
Top of Iowa Wind Electric Plant
Charles H. MacNiderArt Museum
Kinney Pioneer Museum
The Music Man Square
Frank Lloyd Wright Stockman House

Mason City is widely known for its sizable amount of Prairie School architecture, the largest concentration in one location outside of Oak Park, Illinois. The Rock Glen and Rock Crest districts along Willow Creek feature homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Burley Griffin.

Wright's Stockman House has been restored and is open to the public. Wright's Park Inn Hotel, which influenced Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and other European Modern architects, is the only remaining hotel in the world designed by him still standing, and is in the process of being restored.

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