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Caption: Dedication - Allerton Park
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In 1896 Robert Allerton took up residence on the farm in Piatt County which his father had given him at birth. He lived at first in a three-room wooden house across the lake from the building which became his home and is now known as Allerton House. Two years later he decided to build a permanent home, but before doing so he went to Europe with John Boric, eastern architect, and spent the winter studying houses and landscape architecture. They i< turned in the spting with plans for Allerton House and with some of the basic furnishings already purchased. Work was started on June 13, 1899, and the house was occupied, .ilt hough not completely finished, in 1900. In the next two years, the Brick Garden was developed and die Gate House, the greenhouses, and the stables were constructed. The roadside Osage orange hedge .ilso was planted then. 10
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