Fred Bernstein on Buffalo’s plans to add three new Wright “inspired” buildings, in hopes of capturing more architectural tourists. (Monona Terrace is mentioned – along with comments on “executing” the designs of the long dead Wright:

Mr. Puttnam, 70, is best known for “executing” another Wright-designed building, a convention center in Madison, Wis., called Monona Terrace, which opened in 1997. Theodore Marks, the president of a nonprofit organization that hired Mr. Puttnam for one of the Buffalo projects – a boathouse on the Niagara River – described Monona Terrace as stunning.
Stunning perhaps, but not wholly accurate. “We used Wright’s exterior religiously,” Mr. Puttnam said, “except we made a six-inch mistake in height. There were hand-done drawings, and we thought we saw a zero. Years later we blew up the drawing for an exhibition, and we said, ‘Whoops, it’s not a zero, it’s a six.’ ”
Robert Twombly, a Wright biographer, has accused the architect’s former apprentices of muddying his legacy with mediocre “Wright” buildings.