SPRING GREEN â 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. Heâs 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, Wrightâs 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 to be interviewed by Wrightâs third and final wife, Olgivanna. This was 1978, and Rott, who grew up on the other side of the Wisconsin River between Spring Green and Lone Rock and graduated from River Valley High School, was one of the rare students from the area to apply to the School of Architecture.
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There isnât 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.
Itâs 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 Sheriffâs Office provides police services, but by 2027 whatâs left of the town, much of it east of the interstate, will be absorbed by the city of Madison.
Located along Monona Drive and adjacent to the Monona Golf Course, the Nathaniel Dean House was constructed in 1856 for a more than 500-acre farm for Nathaniel and Harriet Dean, who had sold their dry goods store in Downtown Madison.