The Indigo Road Hospitality Group has assumed management of The Historic Park Inn Hotel in Mason City, Iowa, including the management of the onsite restaurant and bar. Details on a new restaurant concept and name are expected within the next few months.
“Adding The Historic Park Inn Hotel to our growing portfolio of boutique hotels is an absolute honor for us,” said Larry Spelts, president of lodging & lifestyle adventures at IRHG, in a statement. “The history behind the Historic Park Inn Hotel and Mason City is absolutely remarkable. We are humbled and grateful for the opportunity to preserve the integrity of this historic property and look forward to not only preserving its history but being part of it.”
Completed in 1910 and originally part of a larger property, which included the City National Bank and law offices, The Historic Park Inn Hotel is the last remaining hotel in the world designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, known for his role in what came to be the Prairie School movement of architecture.
The original property, which has undergone several major renovations over the years and a $20 million preservation and restoration project by local non-profit Wright on the Park, was restored to a working 27-room hotel and events center in 2011.
The hotel is close to the Dr. G.C. Stockman House, which Wright designed and built in 1908. Both properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and were designed in the Prairie School style.