Unitarians Mulls Yielding Ownership of Their Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Church

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By Lee Bey

ILLINOIS---Ownership of Oak Park's Unity Temple could be transferred from its long-time congregation to an organization that would be responsible for maintaining the church, according to a $10 million deal aimed at restoring the internationally-recognized Frank Lloyd Wright structure. According to an email sent to the congregation Tuesday evening by the Unitarian Universalist congregation's board of Trustees, Chicago's Alphawood Foundation would donate $10 million toward the restoration of the 105-year-old building, 875 Lake St. Built in 1908, the blocky reinforced concrete church is National Historic Landmark and is one of Wright's best-known buildings. [link]