Term: Metzner Act
Definition: A late-1950's local Madison act that blocked construction of an auditorium on the Lake Monona shoreline which had been designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright (the building was successfully built four decades later, after Wright's death).
[Source: The History of Wisconsin, v.6: Continuity and change, 1940-1965 (Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973-1998)]
