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Article: Making peace over Monona Terrace
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 23, 1997
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Sometimes the reputation of a great artist outpaces the objections
of even his severest critics. Certainly that has happened in the
case of Frank Lloyd Wright.
The fabled architect, whose Monona Terrace Community and
Convention Center was dedicated in Madison last week, has achieved
in death what he and his advocates were unable to bring to pass
during his lifetime: completion of this most controversial project.
True, the $67.1 million, tri-level complex, linking the lake with
the State Capitol, ended up a convention center rather than an
auditorium. And that is a lingering cause for regret for several of
Wright's partisans, including his grandson, Brandoch Peters.
But the show of amity ...