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February 26, 2015

Conn. town wants to open Maurice Sendak museum

  • Officials have set their sights on a vacant modernist building in Ridgefield designed by acclaimed architect Philip Johnson.
  • By MICHAEL MELIA
    Associated Press

    HARTFORD, Conn. — Three years after Maurice Sendak's death, his western Connecticut hometown of Ridgefield is pursuing a museum honoring the author of “Where the Wild Things Are.”

    The town has its sights on a vacant modernist building in walking distance from the village center, a glass structure designed by acclaimed architect Philip Johnson as corporate offices for an oil exploration company that left in 2006.


     
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