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Those chairs: in different colors! Plain nice!

We boring stale stupid human beings! ( Me, too!)
Yes, we throw all these diapers into this little room: D O N E !
Well, at least they are not accused of stealing!
But sometimes i just wonder.................. HOW Do we think?

What a feeling it must be just to walk endlessly in and out of rooms and in long corridors...............awe....

wanderer that isn't entirely true, sure alot of it would have to be replaced. But I've seen buildings that have been abandoned as long as Halcyon Hall, be restored.

maybe back in '85 it may have been feasible to restore but no way now- too gone------i envy Millbrookites who can watch her demise day by day -she's a going down so njoy while we can

If it meant our tax dollars went into restoring Halcyon Hall, I'd be all for it. I mean, it is money certainly better spent than mass tax cuts on the same rich who let her get this way from the start ( the newer deed owners )

It might even be possible to do just a structural restoration, for historical reference. They wouldn't even have to keep the entire building, maybe just the original primary structure? I wonder how much that would cost?

A Braille book is a cool find. As the hospital had children in attendance, it is quite possible that those who were blind were taught to read. From the looks of it (and I'm seeing it via your view), the book could be a Grade 1 braille book that most blind students start with (I have one). Not an easy thing to read and even harder to write.
History is hard to hold on to & even harder to understand if you don't experience it first hand. Thanks for taking the time to chronicle all these fading pieces of history to the best of your abilities.

breaking in ??? maam mayor-----a walk thru park is the definition of entry { who cares about legal defintion} may Bennett hang on till Nov 1--------we need PR to video the fall of the great Lady Halcyon hall -all hail the stone and wood entity that make the governments foible to bring her down- NADA

Frank, the buildings and currently being demolished, I don't know which one but...

Yeah, it's sad Larry D. My mom used to work in quad 4 way back in like the 80's or something...xD

i can't seem to find things. i am a pawn of so much paper, in a digital
world...
but i Hear things, like the Village is pursuing a Contempt Order
against Halcyon Hall's "owner" Bennett Acquisitions LLC,for back
fines and taxes, to the tune of over $2 Million Dollars.

This will never be paid. As a result the Village of Millbrook will
try to "sell" Halcyon. No one will pay $2 Million Dollars. The Village
will then own Halcyon outright. And they have no plan for developing
the parcel, or for financing their own demolition order, either, which
will cost more than $5ive Million Samolians. Ouch.
So the cat continues to chase it's own tail. Or should that be the fox?
It IS Millbrook, after all.

The new "stratergy" will be to fob the whole enchilada off to the county.
It recently tore down the wildy historic Nelson House Hotel annex in Poughkeepsie, laden with asbestos. Around a Million and a half
Smackeroos. They sprayed alot of water. It came down Quick. Would
have happened sooner if not for Sandy. It is now a makeshift parking lot for the county, in a section that is favored for commercial and civic
expansion. The proposal to turn Market St back to 2-way traffic is
slated to cost between 1 and 2 Million dollars.

{always the same amounts, it seems for all these dings...
Especially that last one!
Hell, who wants to go in with me on redoing Market for just 1 Million?
Let's put in a bid! Signage, curbage, some traffic light switcheroo...
Why so much?

Anyway, never mind all that. Just my usual rhetoric. No Serious
people should take it, uhh...seriously. Yeah.

Back on topic, Millbrook's Mayor reiterated her "hopes {for demolition}"
and admitted "Every week people are breaking in."

I think if the county gets hold of it, it'll come down sooner than later.
But in the end, all these plans, desperate or well -laid, are merely
racing gravity, eh?

i saw dis fall down long tim ago...

So simple, I love it. Just like at Grossingers, a simple "G" was on doors all over the place.

I have the floor plans of all floors except the basement. Also still need photos of the west wing side and east wing furthest building interior photos, particularly the side that is closest to the east wing primary structure.

Creepy!!!