Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Allerton Park [PAGE 15]

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The three residences in Robert Alter ton Park are used almost constantly by the University of Illinois for conferences, seminars, short courses, and other meetings. Several thousand persons use the houses each year for these purposes and the various gatherings held in them number almost two hundred. To make such use possible, the houses have been remodeled to some extent and refurnished almost completely. As now equipped, they provide overnight lodging for sixty persons, dining space for 150, and a number of large and small conference rooms. Under some circumstances these facilities are available for use by state-wide, regional, or national groups for conferences of an educational nature at times when they are not required for University purposes. Inquiries as to dates available should be addressed to the Director of Robert Allcrton Park, Monticello, Illinois. To make possible the privacy needed by groups assembled for conferences, the houses are not ordinarily open to visitors to the Park.