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good one PR- Millbrook seems like a Bennett girl- but then further examination of government displays the same naivete'

The Hotel Sterling still stands was on the news today
They say that the fate of hotel is still undecided would cost 35 million to renovate sucks because I grew up here and remember when the hotel was open was beautiful!!!

I just went there tonight (4/10/12) with a few friends. Its not torn down and it is still there although a small section of it was burnt down and it was boarded up and fenced in. As people say,the cops patrol every hour or so and we had to run through the woods and hop over 2 fences to get out. Also, the cops had their little k9 helpers with them so if u Decide to go, go at night and be quiet!

The majority of the other buildings on campus with this site are still partially in use as rehab centers for various casuse from drug abuse to kleptomania, there are also some other very interesting patient cottages that are abandoned and are operated through portable facilities located within the courtyards of the buildings, its a beautiful drive around campus, the architecture is beautiful during the day and truely haunting by nightfall! great gallery Motts

Happy to say this whole entire building is still standing and in great shape, its been boarded up pretty heavily so getting inside is essentially impossible, but still breathtaking to view from the outside

To say the state has nothing to do with this makes no sense at all. Who do you think owns the place? Only a government would waste money on a project like this. Private organizations don't waste money on destroying structures without a plan to rebuild or utilize the land for a profitable purpose. The abandoned structures should remain because it makes no economic sense to tear them down to only leave an eyesore of rubble like they did with the last buildings they tore down.

yes wanderer, my friend, you can see the additional ''chinks in the
armor'', as it were. To me it is deconstructively interesting,but to many or even most, our interest / observations must seem like some kind of
macabre "deathwatch''. This place coming down is inevitable,and I
could care less who has to pay for it. Let's face it, the eventual "price point" for demo here is going to be a giant inflated rip off, even if they
complied with environmental laws, which they just probably won't, not really.
When the profit in eradicating exceeds that of replacing, eventually
DEMO itself will be the coveted, overblown,Federal- freakin -project
job that'll bankrupt someone else! This place bankrupted the cat
who built it as a hotel, Foreclosed to the builder, who was never paid in full. Flipped more than half a dozen times after that BEFORE
1905. It's brown as a M&M, but Halcyon was The Whitest of Elephant's
from Day 1. An object lesson about the particular nature of this
particular property. It has been the Bermuda Triangle of Millbrook's
real estate scene not just since Bennet's close, but since 1892,
really. Kind of like a Realtor version of the hotel fromThe Shining,
where instead of being haunted, Nicholson's character travels
through time being swindled every generation by this rotting hotel.

Except Nicholson's character is now taxpayer Joe. Us. The citizenary.


one starts to get the drift of why this town was desperate to get ANYONE
to agree upfront to demo, for any promise at all. They'd let a Floridian water-park, or even
a Jersey Shore beergarden be built here for any such promise.
{Now that I think about it, there's not much difference between either of those, is there?] That goes for at least whoever'd be in charge of
greenlighting it all anyway. They tried. The people said No.
Whataya want?

And I am not, nor have i ever equated the "ProposaL" as being
as preposterously out of line, ON THE FACE oF it, as my sarcasm
would suggest.

But, I'm sorry, this whole mentalitty of ""Only the Developers can
Save us!!!, [from ourselves...]"

I will posit simply , that it was a False Choice that was presented

Demo/Collapse/Lightning Strike/Gravity, et al IS INEVITABLE

The Blumenthal, or the __________, plan, or the _______- ____
scheme, or the _______, _______,& ______ project LLC,
or even the L______ S_______R_____ Blutarsky bid,
{especially that last one] ....even as Not Unnattractive plans-

Are NOT INEVITABLE . Millbrook Just Didn't Want It. They CHOSE to
continue to watch this place rot, like an Addams Family ghost, OK?
I prefer an Edward Gorey reference point, myself but eye of the
beholder, and all that, right? Fine
Y'all just picked the wrong town. I know it seemed spring-loaded for
the picking, and cottequittishly gave the impression she wanted to
dance, right up to the engagement, or whatever. But Millbrook is
a Bennet Girl !!

1980- Paul Newman rumoured to be buying Bennett for his fledgling
philanthropy, which at the time few knew about, and became the
charity powerhouse we all know. The Winnebago parked in front of
the crappy dorms, said to be his. Sat there a few weeks. X


1981- Rev Sung Yung Moon sought to purchase the campus for his
Unification Church. {Must have outbid Newman! ] No doubt
drawn to the reputation established by Dr Timothy Leary for
Millbrook's religulous tolerance, the village was in no mood to
exhume THAT corpse, at least not with a different, arguably less qualified
cult leader than Doc Leary, ho ho ho ...X

after early 90's preservation efforts failed, interest was expressed by
The Guiness Corporation, then Trinity Dublin Colege,then the NYS
Film & Video Office,
in succession.Tantalizingly apropos, the building by then was
TOO FAR GONE. So someone sold them a dream too, and blew
smoke up everyone's ass each time. So who really cares who spouts what? Even Feetlegs post is partly quite commemorative, in it's own
fashion,and that's what seems to draw most people to the topic
at hand.

if you ask most
people not what what they WANT to see here, or even what they
WOULDN't WANT to see here, everyone who knows, KNOWS that
the EXTENT of that proposal would never be ALLOWED here.
It's just doesn't have to be explained to anyone who GETS it.
Millbrook continues to choose to watch this place rot, because as
an entity, despite the motives and actions of their elected representatives, it is collectively smart enough to know that is far preferable than
the false choice they were presented.Or hell, maybe I'm wrong,
maybe it was transparently appropriate. Well, guess what? They
rejected it anyway, ya know? Like, there were never enough people
FOR IT, see? Who cares who's against it? If anyone knew they could
actually take credit for the "defeat" of the Bennett proposal by posting on a site dedicated to what it was to replace? Wow. Holy $%^.
really? Thatt's sorta like ... Halcyon's revenge. Again. Who knew
people have the power?

Not me! I told you years ago that it was coming down any freakin day now! I've never doubted nor underestimated the seemingly
all-encompassing concrete/ paving that not only accompanies, but
defines "progress', so i never let it stop me from being as full of %^&*
as anyone else. So if you take anything i say seriously, then you deserve what you get to look at as much as I do. Or deserve.
Or something like that. But mostly I am also astonished that the place hasn't f simply fallen to the ground.


It's false. Opinions mean zero. This is the newAmerica. If it was
Good Business, it would have Happened. ergo, it wasn't Good
Business. Doesn't mean it was Bad Business, necessarily, but
i am only talking defiinitionally, and situationally. Ya know...

It's a shame that they've started to take it all down . Like , it's a historical site . not many people know the history on pilgrim state , but I do . I was honestly addicted to pilgrim state history a few years back . i printed out articals from all over , just to learn more about the sad history . it's a terrible idea to tear it down . they should just rebuild it . or at least renevate it .

Another vote for wallpaper for this one!

I love all the angles in this. This actually reminds me of Escher.

Really nice shot.

Eesh. Right in line with the door, too, so you can walk right in and fall in or break a leg. "Hey guys, what's for luAAAAAAAHHHH"

There's a Björk joke in there somewhere, but I can't quite find it...

The angles in that room remind me of Lovecraft's "The Dreams in the Witch House"...

I worked as an aide in this building, the Boy's ward on the right--- from 1978 to 81. Loved taking care of those poor souls. I still remember most of their names and wonder what became of them after I left......