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Frank Lloyd Wright's Bay Bridge That Never Was

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Model of the Butterfly Bridge at Stonestown Shopping Center, San Francisco, 1953. L to R: Aaron Green, Arthur Haggard, Mrs. Donald Magnin, Mary Lee Futernick, and Carol Weingarten. (Photo: Courtesy of Robot Skelton, San Francisco Call-Bulletin)

Did you know the great American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to build a bridge across the San Francisco Bay?

Bay Curious question asker Duncan Keefe of San Jose did. He studied architecture in school.

"It would have been brilliant, and I think it would have been very influential -- and possibly changed the course of how other bridges subsequent to it would have been designed," he says.

Frank Lloyd Wright loved the San Francisco Bay Area. But you wouldn’t know it, because there just aren’t a lot of his buildings around here.

Learn more about his famed Butterfly Bridge in this week's episode of Bay Curious. Listen using the player above.

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