The La Follette School of Public Affairs plans to move into one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s oldest buildings and rename the facility after former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl.
Built in 1880 at the bottom of Bascom Hill, a Madison architect designed Music Hall as a place where all of the university’s 481 students could gather. Today, enrollment exceeds 51,000.
The Board of Regents, which oversees UW-Madison and Wisconsin’s 12 other state universities, approved plans this month to renovate Music Hall. The building’s stone exterior is deteriorating, the mechanical systems are past life expectancy and the building lacks sprinklers…