(WORT) — The Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center has been prominent fixture of the Madison skyline for nearly two decades. However, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright originally proposed Monona Terrace way back in 1939.

It was Madison Mayor Paul Soglin who successfully revived the plan in the 1990s, but as historian Stu Levitan explains, the Monona Terrace was very close to being built in the early 1960s. Here’s the Madison History Podcast.