Caption: Map of UIUC (2001) (Allerton)
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CULTURAL LANDSCAPE TREATMENT PLAN ROBERT ALLERTON PARK, MONTICELLO, ILLINOIS Structures • Garden spaces typically enclosed by brick or concrete walls or vine trellises, which define spaces and form visual corridors. Some of the walls are an unusually early example of hand formed concrete work. Structures used as accents in the landscape (House of Golden Buddhas, stair tower in Triangle Parterre Garden, pylons in Centaur area). Many of these designed by John Gregg Allerton. Stairs and gateways serve as transitional elements between gardens. • • Vegetation • • Plantings generally formal and highly structured, and often used in pairs or as symmetrical plantings along a walkway to define spaces. Evergreens used as hedging to line main path and create visual corridor. Amur privet hedging used to create maze patterns (Square Parterre Garden, Triangle Parterre Garden, Chinese Maze Garden). Fastigiate evergreens used as visual accents in the landscape. Vine trellises, usually covered with wisteria, serve dual purpose of defining spaces and forming deer resistant edges to gardens. Major floral displays mostly limited to Flower Gardens. • • Circulation • Central path is primary organizing feature of main gardens. Path was previously pea stone, now most sections are exposed aggregate concrete for ADA access. Gardens generally designed to be viewed from this path. Most paths in formal gardens straight rather than curved (except southern end of Avenue of Formal Gardens) and enclosed by vegetation or sculptures. Path becomes more informal as it moves beyond Sunken Garden into woodland areas, linking with woodland trails. Sun Singer is the only major garden space directly accessible by automobile. • • • Sculptures/Furnishings • • • • Early sculptures classical in character generally used as landscape features rather than work of art (Assyrian lions, urns, etc.). Later sculptures Art Deco (Sea Maidens) or Oriental influence (Fu Dogs, Japanese Guardian Fish, Hari Hara, etc.). Centaur and Sun Singer are unique in being monumental sculptures for which a setting was designed. Many of the sculptures were moved several times as Allerton developed new gardens. I-8
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