This book showcases two extraordinary estates:  Allerton Park and Retreat Center near the town of Monticello, Illinois, and Lawai-Kai (also called Allerton Garden) on the southern end of the island of Kauai.  Both were homes to the quiet philanthropist, Robert Allerton (1873-1964).  His Illinois home, Allerton Park and Retreat Center, was his first palette where he learned to mingle art and landscape architecture.  His second home in Kauai allowed him to work with more sculpture and add exotic plants.The properties were ultimately bequeathed to the University of Illinois and the National Tropical Botanical Gardens, which opened the door to their glorious vistas to everyone.  This coffee-table style book is filled with over one hundred beautiful glossy color photographs of both properties that will take your breat away.

Allerton's Paradises

Maureen Holtz

John Foreman

News-Gazette sports writer, Fred Kroner, tracked down the inside story on the historic building that was designed by a University of Illinois architecture graduate. For Kroner's fourth book, he not only spoke with Assembly Hall directors, coaches, players and a veteran UI trainer for their memories and perspectives, but also tracked down the building-project manager, a man whose company installed the glass, an usher who had 45 years of service, and stagehands who were on the scene when some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry came to town with their unusual requests. The resulting book is a comprehensive, inside look at an award-winning building that serves not only as the home court of the Fighting Illini men's and women's basketball teams, but also as a concert venue, a theater for musicals and plays and an all-purpose location suitable for conventions and graduations.

A Saucer Coming to Rest

Fred Kroner

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Allerton's Paradises

A Saucer Coming to Rest