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wanderer,enjoy your visit,Millbrook is so nice this time of year.
LPN, the semicircle was just an open verandah,before it was glassed in.

Henry J Davison,II was like his father,somewhat of a Renaissance man,but a bit more
an affable charlatan. Lawyer, talented engineer, in the gas,chemical, and mining
trades. Known as a bold,even reckless investor, his losses always somehow reversed
upon the next windfall deal. Determined to outshine all of his neighbour's
country houses[probably his father's the most] he concieved the hotel as the only
way to affordably outbuild Millbrook's other hilltoppers. A clever conflation,he spent
a million dollars on Halcyon Hall. It was the same amount he had paid to acquire
Godey's Lady Book magazine,called the Vanity Fair of the 1890's.

The magazine succeeded. The hotel did not. Barely a year after it opened,Davison
foreclosed,originally to Mead & Taft,the builders whom had never been paid in full.
It struggled along as a hotel till about 1905,but without the Davisons. Despite his
spendthrift habits ruinous consequences, Davison, [a personal friend of Winston Churchill's,] was said to have taken it all in stride. He and his wife moved into a small
cottage in South Millbrook,naming it "Bagatelle." [little jewel,little treasure]

There is a kind of minor-key Citizen Kane narrative in his story arc,for sure. But it sounds to me like Henry J certainly understood Fun.
In any event the late 19thcentury uniquely produced these kind of wildboys, by
the thousands.The second generation of post industrial revolution wealth,these
were characters out of central casting, any of there lives enough for a novel. Or
a movie...

Beautiful shots of a Kirkbride. There was one in Pontiac, MI, near where I grew up. They tore most of it down years ago. Regret to think what was lost. The building loomed over the city and I still miss seeing it when I get a chance to pass that way.

Mr. Motts,
Please let me know if you are interested in visiting Georgia. We have a spare room you can borrow. I live in Macon, GA (also called Middle Georgia). kimbre01@hotmail.com

Pray to the valve god for half life 3 to come out

Is there any way I could get a high quality shot of the front of the building to print off and frame? I'm an abandoned photographer and hate that this building is gone. I just want a good shot of it to hang in my house somewhere. thanks,

My dad was the senior stationary engineer at this plant, and I myself worked there for a time under his supervision... I remember it well

Ah, what a shame. Thanks for the update Robin.

Seemed to be mostly wood, but the central support could've had steel elements for extra strength.

Yes it's being restored and rented out for ghost hunting and other kinds of events: http://www.trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/

Nah that feeling happens in abandoned hotels mostly.

Thanks, yeah a car showed up and we all thought it would be best to get out of there so I didn't get to see the entire place. Would be nice to go back.

Thank You For Everyone Sharing Their "Ghost Stories" Here.
Limited Time, I Was Only AbleTo Read Thru half Way Down But Will Come Back later.

Glenn Dale Was my Fathers Name Is How I Got Interested in This pages, He's Passed On now, & He Didn't Attend Any Asylums, Yet Still This Has My Devoted interest.
Ghost "Unbelievers" Don't & Won't Understand "Encounters" Until It happens To Them & Then They'll Lie To ThemSelves & Make up "Logical Excuses" (Oxymoron Intended For Purpose) To Explain(?).
My Life Has Been Saved many Times By The Spirits, Violated many Laws of Physics Undoubtedly & I'm Super Rational & Debunk My Own "Logical Excuses".
Spirits Are mainly Previous living Humans Dead To Humanity. Moved On To A Higher Vibrational Frequency & Living In A Non Human Dimension, Evolving To Their next Life Or What Ever Phase Of Spiritual Evolution.
Ghosts Either Haven't "Let Go" Of Earth-Boundedness By Either Choice Or Major "Trauma" here Screws With Their releasing Themselves. They relive their "Traumatic Experiences" When humans invade their "Premises" Or They Still Call Their Physical premises "Home" & Get Fissed When Humans Invade Them.
Some people Are Too Arrogantly Strong Or Such Strong Dis-Beleievers That the Ghosts Don't "Waste their Energy" (= Powers of Electromagnetic Forces They Have developed) On Arrogants Visiting Their "Areas" So Why Not Everyone has same experiences With "Ghosts" Ghosts Have Ego's Also because Ego Is not physical.
Too long A Topic ... I'm In Minnesota, & Want to Be With Ghost hunters When they go Out Looking. The Spirits That helped Me, Stay Invisable, Yet I want to be in A Group Collective Experience.
Email~~~> MrBloosman@gmail.
& Write "Glenn Dale" In The topic line bcz usually goes into Spam folder otherwise
& ThanQue Very Much
GD (#2)

Presumably With The ThanQues, This Must Be Near "The End" (...... Of The Pictoral), Great Pics & For Sharing Them With Us. My Thanks As Well

Cold & Sad Place. But At Least they Had a Final Resting Place

Yes, Great to See Before & After Shots! Mezmerizing, Walking Around For Hours In Awe Just Looking & Imagining it In It's "Hey-Day" (Unique Definition Here-In :)