Download or read book Robert Allerton Park Monticello Illinois written by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Robert Allerton Park Monticello Illinois written by Illinois. University and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Allerton Family in the United States written by Walter Scott Allerton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Allerton Park Monticello Illinois Classic Reprint written by University Of Illinois and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Robert Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois Copyright, 1951, by the University of Illinois Press. Printed in the United States of America. On October 14, 1946, Robert Allerton gave to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois part of his homestead, The Farms, near Monticello in Piatt County, Illinois, to be used by the University as an educational and research center, as a forest and a wild-life and plant life reserve, as an example of landscape architecture, and as a public park. The portion known as the Woodland Property, approximately acres in extent, has been named Robert Allerton Park. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Open Secret written by Nicholas L. Syrett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Open Secret traces the history of philanthropist Robert Allerton and his companion, John Wyatt Gregg, whom Allerton formally adopted as his son in 1960, after decades of living together. Yet why did these two men, who appear to be a gay couple from our view today, choose to project a father/son relationship? Syrett argues that in a period of both rising homosexual openness and social disapproval, the men had to find an alternative public logic for their situation. Whether or not Allerton and Gregg had sex with each other, they were undoubtedly a queer union: two high-society men who did not affirm traditional notions of partnership or couplehood"--
Download or read book Robert Allerton His Parks and Legacies written by Maureen Holtz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His philanthropies are little known outside of Central Illinois and Kauai, but the Art Institute of Chicago and the Honolulu Academy of Arts benefited from his magnanimous assistance with funding and artwork. Allerton was a quiet man who left his mark in both Illinois and Hawaii. Robert Allerton: His Parks and Legacies includes photographs taken over the last 100 years that document his life and properties. Named one of the Seven Wonders of Illinois, Robert Allerton Park is visited by nearly 100,000 people annually. Allerton, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist and art collector, donated his palatial country estate to the University of Illinois in 1946 with the intent that it should be maintained as a wildlife preserve and an example of landscape gardening. Today Robert Allerton Park is both a National Historic Site and National Natural Landmark.
Download or read book Robert Allerton written by Martha Burgin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Inside Allerton written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Allerton is an architectural and historical guidebook to the entire Robert Allerton Park located in central Illinois, featuring more than 100 color photos, and dozens of historic photographs and original architectural drawings.
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Download or read book Robert Allerton Park written by University of Illinois (Monticello) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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