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Monona Terrace renovations are scheduled to occur every 10 years.

SPRING GREEN — Peter Rott knows his way around buildings designed or inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. Rott was the project architect in the 1990s during the construction of the Monona Terrace convention center in Madison. He’s now working on restoration efforts of the A.D. German Warehouse, the only warehouse designed by Wright and constructed between 1917 and 1921 in downtown Richland Center, Wright’s hometown. Rott spent eight years studying at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin just south of Spring Green, but to get into the prestigious school he needed...

There isn’t much remaining of the town of Blooming Grove. Once a rural enclave east of Lake Monona, most of the town over the years has been consumed by the cities of Madison and Monona. It’s been dissected by Interstate 39-90 and the Beltline. The fire department was dissolved in 2015 and the town now receives fire protection and ambulance service from the Madison Fire Department. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office provides police services, but by 2027 what’s left of the town, much of it east of the interstate, will be absorbed by the city of Madison. Located along Monona D...