Added: 10/31/2005 |
The US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowaus cellular field
Cedar Rapids is located seventy miles southwest of Dubuque, is home of Quaker Oats and is an Iowa's industrial leader. Due to a meat-packing boom in the late 1840s, thousands of Czechs settled in Cedar Rapids. The Czech Village (16th Avenue SW and First Street) features an excellent Sykora's bakery, gift shops, traditional houses and a new museum of national costumes and immigrant artefacts. The very modern Museum of Art (410 Third Ave SE) has a comprehensive collection of paintings by Grant Wood, best known for his depictions of 1930s farm life.
Cedar Rapids' CVB is based in 119 First Ave SE, downtown and there is the Best Western Cooper's Mill (100 F Ave NW) for reasonably priced rooms.
Cedar Rapid has a great variety of attractions. The most famous ones are:
· Cedar Rapids Kernels Baseball Club
· Hawkeye Downs - All Agri Assoc.
· Iowa Masonic Library & Museum
· National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
· The Science Station & IMAX® theatre
· Ushers Ferry Historic Village
· African American Historical Museum & Cultural Center of Iowa
Cedar Rapids is famous due to the US Cellular Centre, the most popular entertainment place that contains U.S. Cellular Arena, U.S. Cellular Field and the Paramount Theatre.
Opened on April 18, 1991, Comiskey Park presents an exploding scoreboard, an old-time facade complete with arches and over forty thousand unobstructed-view seats. In January, 2003, it was renamed U.S. Cellular Field. Designed by an architect Zachary Taylor Davis with the help from Comiskey and a pitcher Ed Walsh, Comiskey Park featured spacious dimensions.
The Paramount Theatre is one of the three hundred movie palaces left in the United States. It was built in the 1920s. Today, this is almost a two thousand seat theatre, which hosts over hundred and seventy event days a year, including concerts, fundraisers, corporate meetings, dance recitals and a Broadway Series. It is considered to be home for the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, the Cedar Rapids Area Theatre Organ Society and Community Concerts.
The Paramount Theatre is enlisted in the National Register of Historic Places, which notes buildings of historical or architectural significance. The theatre was built according to the style of "standard theatre architecture". It is a combination of baroque and rococo, popular with early twentieth century theatres. Building the Paramount Theatre, they wanted to make it like a palace, with everything of high class. When it opened, visitors dressed elegantly.
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