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Visit the 450-acre conservation education facility with its walking trails, restored prairie, and nature center featuring animal displays.

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Meredith Willson Boyhood Home

In 1902 Meredith Willson, who immortalized his hometown of Mason City as River City in "The Music Man," was born in this 1895 house. It is now filled with family memorabilia, musical treasures and period furnishings.

Mason City, IA Historic Homes

Kinney Pioneer Museum

View fossils, dolls, ladies' fashions, soda shop and antique cars. Peruse Meredith Willson collection, one-room school, log cabin and blacksmith shop. See the rare Colby Car, manufactured in Mason City.

Mason City, IA Museums

Charles H. MacNider Museum

Tudor-style mansion with contemporary additions overlooks Willow Creek and features permanent collection of 19th and 20

Mason City, IA Museums

Frank Lloyd Wright Stockman House

Wright's first Iowa building, designed in 1908, restored and furnished with Arts and Crafts furniture and reproductions of period Wright furniture. The only middle-class home of his Prairie School period that is open to the public in the U.S.

Mason City, IA Historic Homes


Things to do near Mason City, IA

Mitchell County Nature Center

Wildlife specimens, bird feeding observation area, trumpeter swan restoration site with captive breeding pair....

Conrad Heritage Hall

Local history museum....

Lady of the Lake

Cruise aboard a double-deck sternwheel riverboat with bar, bandstand and dance floor. Narrated tours and private charters are...

Linn Grove Country Club

Course Access: PublicHoles: 9Reserve Advance Tee Times: Yes...