Consideration of the plans was nothing if not "careful" - the Monona Terrace was completed in 1997, more than 55 years after Wright and Mead's meeting.

Mead & Hunt – Engineer Meets Architect

In 1941, a Mr. Brayton, then editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, arranged a meeting between consultant Daniel Mead and architect Frank Lloyd Wright.  Later, Brayton asked Mead to comment on the renowned architect’s preliminary design for the Monona Terrace:

I have examined with much interest the sketches of Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright for a proposed city auditorium, civic center, and union railway station [to be] built at the end of Wisconsin Avenue and project somewhat beyond the shores of Lake Monona … [Mr. Wright] is by no means an impractical idealist, for many of his interesting and original creations have met with marked practical success. In his plans for the Madison development, he has met unusual conditions in a practical, original, and artistic manner and, in [my] judgment, these plans are worthy of most careful, and detailed consideration – (Daniel Mead, Wisconsin State Journal, July 18, 1941)