{"id":8,"date":"2011-06-07T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T01:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dunn\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2024-11-14T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:53:26","slug":"about-the-dunn-guest-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/about-the-dunn-guest-house\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Dunn Guest House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dunn\/files\/2011\/06\/PicofDunnHouse-150x150.png\" alt=\"PicofDunnHouse\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/files\/2011\/06\/PicofDunnHouse-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/files\/2011\/06\/PicofDunnHouse-68x68.png 68w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Standing next to historic Libbey Forum and christened in honor of Robert Dunn \u201950, L.H.D. \u201999 and Gladys Bovino Dunn \u201951, the 19th-century farmhouse has become the first ever Bates College guest house. The three-floor house offers five guest rooms for special visitors, including honorary degree recipients, acclaimed speakers or performers, and other friends of the College. A three-room common space dominates the first floor, while the second floor features three bedrooms. The third floor features a suite of rooms. A handicapped-accessible room adjoins the main building on the first floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Purpose of the Dunn House<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dunn House was dedicated in 2001 and is the gift of alumni Robert and Gladys Dunn &#8217;50\/&#8217;51. Its purpose is to provide a warm, inviting and comfortable place for overnight visitors to the College including alumni, speakers, potential employees and others on College business. While the primary purpose of the house is a guest residence, the kitchen\/dining area can also be reserved for small meetings or events that are related to the life of the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Rooms at the Dunn House<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Myhrman Room:<\/strong> Located off the kitchen with <strong>1 Queen Bed.<\/strong> It is a handicapped Accessible First Floor Guest Room.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Ulrich-Harris Room:<\/strong> First Guest Room located on the Second Floor with <strong>1 Queen Bed.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Penney Room: <\/strong>Second Guest Room located on the Second Floor with <strong>1 Queen Bed.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Papaioanou Room: <\/strong>Third Guest Room located on the Second Floor with <strong>1 Queen Bed.<\/strong> The entrance to the room is down the hall and around the corner.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Kendall Suite Family Suite:<\/strong> Family Suite located on the Third Floor with an entrance at both ends of the Second Floor hallway. The suite contains <strong>1 Queen Bed<\/strong> in the bedroom area. There is also a day bed which can be used as <strong>1 twin bed <\/strong>as well as a <strong>single trundle bed<\/strong> which can be pulled out and made up to a twin bed. Thus giving the room <strong>2 twin beds<\/strong> in the sitting area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Standing next to historic Libbey Forum and christened in honor of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/guest-housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}