Art on the Prairie

Venues

Hotel Pattee

The historic Hotel Pattee invites guests to relax in a setting that celebrates the sights and sounds, the people and memories of small town America. A unique reminder of the millions of people who came from all over the world to build our town, our state, and our country, the Pattee is one of the few hotels where every room and suite tells its own story. Our 40 individually decorated and themed guest rooms preserve history, celebrate ethnicity, honor craftsmanship, and pay tribute to the noteworthy sons and daughters of Iowa and the Midwest.

Known as one of the finest boutique hotels in the world, the Hotel Pattee stands as the idyllic retreat location. Whether it's for a couple desiring a romantic weekend getaway, a meeting planner seeking the ideal setting for a board retreat or a soon-to-be bride looking for the perfect reception site, the Pattee promises to make your event one you'll never forget.

We invite you to visit us and discover what makes the Hotel Pattee a destination unto itself.
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Website: http://www.hotelpattee.com/

Town Craft

The center for Town/Craft is an alliance of Hometown Perry, Iowa, the College of Design at Iowa State University, ISU Extension Community and Economic Development for the purpose of identifying and developing new "ideas and strategies that strengthen small communities".
Housed in refurbished historic buildings across from the restored Carnegie Library in Perry, Town/Craft combines the resources of the cultural studies of Hometown Perry, Iowa, the multidimensional outreach network of Iowa State University Extension, and the students, staff and faculty of a nationally prominent school of design into a comprehensive vehicle for envisioning a sustainable future for Iowa towns and surrounding landscapes.

Town/Craft intends to pursue its mission through a series of conferences, projects, exhibits, publications and consultations that will focus on the various challenges and opportunities that face the historic culture of our small communities. "Community Futures 2007: The Small Town in the Bioeconomy," a conference held April 10 2007 in Ames, is the first of the open sessions planned by Town/Craft to begin to gather information and ideas on particularly dynamic developments that promise to shape, for good or ill, the destinies of many community environments.

Finally, Town/Craft is a venture that welcomes the widest possible diversity of perspectives. The center expects to include the knowledge, wisdom and creative energy of the arts, sciences, liberal studies, politics, economics, entrepreneurship and, most important, the real and virtual citizenry of our Iowa towns as it pursues its mission.

Website: http://www.design.iastate.edu/TownCraft/

Carnegie Library

Visitors to Hometown Perry often start their journey at the Carnegie Library Museum. Built in 1904 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie, the building initially served as the town’s public library. Now restored to its 1910 appearance, the building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Still a working library, its collection includes many of the library’s original 1,000 titles, as well as special collections of midwest literature, women’s fiction, children’s books, and books on literacy and libraries. Visitors can also explore HPI’s stories through temporary exhibits on view here. The Court Room on the basement level recreates a brief time in Perry’s history (1907-1917) when this room served as the town’s courthouse. Also on the basement level, the Women’s Room tells stories of the bonds formed between women who spent time here when they came into town from neighboring farms.

Website: http://hpi.design.iastate.edu/carnegielibrarymuseum.php

Perry, Iowa

Small towns have been big news, especially small towns that thrive on telling their story. Travelers are flocking to small mid-western communities to study a microcosm of the nation's history, to explore their immigrant heritage and to take advantage of a surprising array of arts and cultural activities. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our community... Perry, Iowa. Perry has become headquarters for the story of immigrant experience and small-town life.

Website: http://www.perryia.org/main.html