Mitchell businessman Jeff Logan is hoping to restore a historic downtown building in the Corn Palace City, according to a story by Seth Tupper in the Mitchell Daily Republic. As part of a grant application to seek funds to help with the renovation of 110 E. 2nd Street, Logan notes that famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright once drove through Mitchell and paused to admire the building.

Wright spent some time in South Dakota in the 1930s, and some of his stops have been well documented. He was recruited to rebuild the lodge at Sylvan Lake but some personality differences kept that from happening. He also toured the Badlands and then wrote a powerful essay about architecture, art and nature:

Let sculptors come to the Bad Lands. Let painters come. But first of all the true architect should come. He who could interpret this vast gift of nature in terms of human habitation so that Americans on their own continent might glimpse a new and higher civilization certainly, and touch it and feel as they have lived in it and deserved to call it their own. Yes, I say the aspects of the Dakota Bad Lands have more spiritual quality to impart to the mind of America than anything else in it made by man's God.

There was a man with opinions.