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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Madison Unitarian Meeting House transformed American church architecture

KCBX | By Tom Wilmer
Published September 19, 2017 at 4:46 AM PDT
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March Schweitzer talks about the First Unitarian Society’s Meeting House in Madison, Wisconsin. Designed by parishioner Frank Lloyd Wright in 1946 and completed in 1951, his radical design served to transform 20th Century Church architecture. Schweitzer also talks about Frank Lloyd Wrong—a moniker earned via a heartless side of Wright’s personality.

Madison Unitarian Meeting House front facade
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Classic Frank Lloyd Wright elements at Madison Unitarian Meeting House
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Madison Unitarian Meeting House National Historic Site recognition
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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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