It is also home to the Dakota Wesleyan University Tigers and the Mitchell High School Kernels basketball teams.

It was a wooden castle structure on Mitchell's Main Street, constructed on land donated by Louis Beckwith, a member of the First Corn Palace Committee.

Russian-style onion domes and Moorish minarets were added in 1937, giving the Palace the distinctive appearance that it has today.

In 2004, national media attention was drawn to the Corn Palace, when it received Homeland Security funding.

[10] The exterior corn murals are replaced and redesigned each year with a new theme, with designs created by local artists.

[12] Twelve naturally occurring shades of corn are grown by local farmers to create the artwork.