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Katherine Williams is the travel writer for The Capital Times.
For a small place, with sleeping room for only four people, the Seth Peterson Cottage has ahuge reputation.
The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building, located in Mirror Lake State Park, can't be booked for overnights until the winter of 1998, at the earliest.
That's because every night between now and then is already reserved. So is nearly every night in 1999, except for the winter months. And that's at the going rate, $225 per night. Even for these 1998 and 1999 dates, only weekdays are available.
If you're looking toward 2000, mark mid-January as the time to place your call: That's the soonest (two years ahead) that the management firm, the Sand County Service Co., is taking names for overnights in 2000.
But if you're just looking to learn more about the place, mark Sunday as one of the best times all year to turn up on the site. That's when the Seth Peterson Cottage Conservancy holds its annual meeting -- highlighted by an architectural talk by specialist Mark Keane.
Keane is director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School or Architecture and Urban Planning. His topic, scheduled for noon, is "How students are taught the principles and ideas which together comprised Frank Lloyd...