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Article: Packers fan's firm designed the stadium they play in
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 6, 2004
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Packers fan's firm designed the stadium they play in
A Packers fan for decades, John Somerville had season tickets to
Lambeau Field and always admired the layout of the playing field
that's now considered hallowed ground among the Packers faithful.
Somerville had reason to admire Lambeau -- his architecture firm
designed it.
Somerville, 93, of Allouez, died Saturday of kidney failure at
Bellin Hospital, which he also helped design.
The low bidder to design a new stadium to keep the Packers from
leaving Green Bay in the 1950s, Somerville traveled to the University
of Michigan, Notre Dame and other football stadiums to come up with
ideas for Green Bay.
"There was a lot of whoop-de-do about how ...