North Central Iowa
Cerro Gordo
City of Mason City

Mason City

Mason City is a city in , renowned for its collection of architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright and other Prairie School architects, considered the most significant concentration of such architecture outside of , .
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  • Type: City with 27,300 residents
  • Description: city and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States
  • Also known as: “Mason City, IA” and “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Postal codes: 50401 and 50402

Places of Interest

Highlights include Modern Brotherhood of America Building and East Park Band Shell.

Building
Photo: Dtbrey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The MBA Building, or , also known as the Brick and Tile Building, is a large office building in Mason City, Iowa, built in 1916-1917 for the Modern Brotherhood of America, a fraternal lodge.

Bandstand
Photo: Dtbrey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historic structure located in Mason City, Iowa, United States. The band shell was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Mason City

Latitude
43.1525° or 43° 9′ 9″ north
Longitude
-93.2018° or 93° 12′ 7″ west
Population
27,300
Elevation
1,129 feet (344 metres)
IATA airport code
MCW
United Nations Location Code
US MCW
Open location code
86M85Q2X+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151349056
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4866445
Wiki­data ID
Q1444028
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Mason City” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماسون سيتي”
  • Basque: “Mason City”
  • Bulgarian: “Мейсън Сити”
  • Catalan: “Mason City”
  • Cebuano: “Mason City”
  • Chechen: “Мейсон-Сити”
  • Chinese: “Mason City”
  • Chinese: “梅森城”
  • Czech: “Mason City”
  • Dagbani: “Mason City”
  • Danish: “Mason City”
  • Dutch: “Mason City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماسون سيتى”
  • French: “Mason City”
  • German: “Mason City”
  • Gilaki: “میسن سيتي”
  • Greek: “Μέισον Σίτυ”
  • Haitian: “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Haitian: “Mason City”
  • Hebrew: “מייסון סיטי”
  • Hungarian: “Mason City”
  • Ido: “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Ido: “Mason City”
  • Interlingua: “Mason City”
  • Irish: “Mason City”
  • Italian: “Mason City”
  • Japanese: “メーソンシティ”
  • Japanese: “メイソンシティ”
  • Kazakh: “Mason Sïtï”
  • Kazakh: “Масон Сити”
  • Kazakh: “ماسون سىيتىي”
  • Kirghiz: “Масон Сити”
  • Korean: “메이슨시티”
  • Ladin: “Mason City”
  • Malagasy: “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Malagasy: “Mason City”
  • Marathi: “मेसन सिटी”
  • Mazanderani: “ماسون سیتی (آیووا)”
  • Mazanderani: “ماسون سیتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mason City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mason City”
  • Norwegian: “Mason City”
  • Persian: “ماسون سیتی، آیووا”
  • Persian: “ماسون سیتی”
  • Polish: “Mason City”
  • Portuguese: “Mason City”
  • Russian: “Мейсон-Сити (Айова)”
  • Russian: “Мейсон-Сити”
  • Serbian: “Mason City”
  • Serbian: “Мејсон Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mason City”
  • Silesian: “Mason City”
  • Slovak: “Mason City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماسون سیتی، آیووا”
  • Spanish: “Mason City (Iowa)”
  • Spanish: “Mason City”
  • Swedish: “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Swedish: “Mason City”
  • Tatar: “Мейсон-Сити (Айова)”
  • Tatar: “Мейсон-Сити”
  • Turkish: “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Turkish: “Mason City”
  • Ukrainian: “Мейсон-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “میسن شہر، آئیووا”
  • Urdu: “میسن شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Mason City”
  • Uzbek: “Масон Cитй”
  • Vietnamese: “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Vietnamese: “Mason City”
  • Volapük: “Mason City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mason City”
  • Welsh: “Mason City, Iowa”
  • Welsh: “Mason City”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mason City”. Photo: Jonathunder, GFDL.