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The Wisconsin state capitol resembles the nation's capitol.
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Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
Garish white whale or architectural cornerstone? You be the judge of
Monona Terrace
Community and Convention Center
(1 John Nolen Dr., 608/261-4000,
www.mononaterrace.com
,
8am-5pm daily). Madisonians may never come to terms with
their decades-old love-hate relationship with it. Supporters hoped that the structure, which
some call FrankLloyd Wright'smasterpiece, partially atop Lake Mononaonpylons,would
dr aw attention (and moneyed conventioneers) to Madison; critics moaned that it was yet
another civic white elephant—and a monument to someone they considered an egotistical
SOB.
Wright's hoped-for design included much, much more than was finally constructed, and
only three years after it opened its structures already required repairs. (Sorry, but that's
so
