Blue Sky Mausoleum, in Forest Lawn Cemetery in

Buffalo, New York Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Sou ...

, is the 2004 completion of a 1928 design by

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...

as a commercial cemetery project. The design was completed by a one-time apprentice to Wright, Anthony Puttnam. Puttnam was also responsible for the posthumous completion of Wright's

Monona Terrace Monona Terrace (officially the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center) is a convention center on the shores of Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin. Controversy Originally designed by Wisconsin native Frank Lloyd Wright, it was first propo ...

building in

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in modified form, and he has defended both projects against accusations that they are inauthentic. The Mausoleum was the last of four projects Darwin D. Martin commissioned from Wright; the others were his

residential complex A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family resi ...

, the

Larkin Administration Building The Larkin Building was an early 20th century building. It was designed in 1903 by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1904-1906 for the Larkin Soap Company of Buffalo, New York. The five story dark red brick building used pink tinted mortar and ...

, and

Graycliff The Graycliff estate was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1926 and 1931. It is located southwest of downtown Buffalo, New York, at 6472 Old Lake Shore Road in the hamlet of Highland-on-the-Lake, with a mailing address of Der ...

, their summer house.

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* {{Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright buildings Buildings and structures completed in 2004 Burials at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo)