What do you see from your window? Houses, barns, schools, and churches? Fields of corn and hay or the rolling hillsides of the “land between two rivers?” For the artist Grant Wood, these familiar scenes became the focus of understanding what it meant to be an Iowan. This Iowa Department of Transportation Rest Area facility in Linn County pays homage to the life and work of Grant Wood and the development of Regionalism in American Art that grew directly from the landscape of Iowa. Many artwork elements are integrated throughout the Linn County Rest building and site. Internally illuminated Gothic windows with images of native Iowa plant species become icons in honor of Wood’s “American Gothic” painting. The sculpture of rolling hills in the entry plaza recalls the landforms made famous in his landscape paintings, while bales of hay become benches. Relief carved and modeled panels based on topographical sections found in his paintings create textures and patterns that are inset into the facade of the building. The colorful striped patterns of crop rows and contours are depicted in the epoxy-terrazzo floor mural.