Instructions: In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
Input: It served as a papal residence and housed the central offices responsible for the civil government of the Papal States until 1870 .
Output:
The palace was a papal residence until 1870 .