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Thank you Motts. I can't get enough of your work.

Amazing that after 33 years it's still hanging there. So cool. A reminder that there were once people here 24/7.

I worked at a coal mine in the 70s. Part of the service of the lights was to make sure the batteries had acid & distilled water in them. This looks like an acid/water filling station. The batteries were big and heavy. I hope they have gotten smaller by now.

Oh my God... Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

Beautiful. Such great brick details on a building designed to extract coal out of the ground.

"All these eyes on us Babe,they dont know you like i do aye,where i have my eyes lookn,we have a 3 coarse meal where you can pig out,God knows you need it aye babe" haha sorry Motts

i just came back from there. i went with 2 friends of mine. it was dark which made the place pretty creepy, but it wasnt that bad. it was interesting to see old patient files. but the morgue still sent shivers up my spine

Been over a year since I've been around. Nice to see new "faces" and pictures....

Anyway, this door simply broke at the stile, which is actually quite common.

But that takes nothing away from the picture.

I first saw a picture of Halcyon when doing a google search for "old historic houses" and I believe it is just that. Historic. Beautiful. Magical. I could go on all day...

From the first moment I laid eyes on this structure, it has captivated me in every possible way. I've been able to think of little else than this magnificent building and what it must have been like in it's glory days. (I will begin studying architecture in the spring semester of 2011, so naturally these things intrigue me.)

It's a real shame to see Halcyon in this state. It [is] truly a flagship example of the architecture of its time. I would give anything to see it restored (as impossible as that is) to its former glory. I hope it's still standing...I am pretty sure to be visiting the East Coast in the spring or early summer and will definitely drive to NY (Even just to glimpse it from the road).

I'm glad I stumbled across this site. I've found so much about Bennett and Halcyon over the past 3 days-so much more than I could ever have hoped for. It sounds like the kind of place fairy tales are made of. Thanks everyone for the pictures and stories! History oozes from this wondrous place...it's legacy will live on whether Halcyon stands physically or not.

(Thanks especially to Pat Ratchet for keeping tabs on the situation! I just hope Halcyon will still be standing when I visit next year.)

Richard
The fence was flimsy because I would drive over it with pookie to get in without having to climb. But its gone now

At the risk of sounding crazy, does anyone think that us, gaebler, and met state were part of mk-ultra or some kind of experiment for drugs, so on? Like did that guy with the seven teeth murder know what he was doing, or was he being controlled.
What's your thoughts on the whole thing? Like I said. - don't want to sound crazy, but it has crossed my mind. Does anyone remember going to the dentist???

Hey Pookie I saw it last night on my jog too. As far as I know you're not trespassing if you don't pass the fence. You're feelings must be mixed seeing it come down. I hope we take better care now of Children with family or mental issues than we did back then : my hunch is we treat them the same but a Pharmaceutical company gets a chunk of profit

I spent some time skiing here as a child with children of a man that owned a bar in Woodbourne... The Great Escape Tavern. My father lived in the basement of that bar for many years roughly from the mid 80's to the early 90's. Unfortunately my father passed away in 2006 however I am desperate to find some of the people he work/associated with. As this was 20 years ago and I was only a child I can only remember 1st names... please contact me via email if you think you may know me or my father... saraherring7477@gmail.com

Why is it, danvers state didn't look scary when my folks worked there and I was there alot as a kid? now when I see pictures on line I get a eerie feeling.

JG,
I agree with you about our parents never being allowed in our rooms, I don't know why that was, when I was there 82-84, they had to visit us downstairs where you actually first come into the building, my parents were never allowed on the ward I was on, I was on D, it was really strange, I think the staff knew that if they let the parents up to see our ward and bedrooms and what kind of living conditions we live in then there would have been a lot more law suits then already going on at the time,...but, now the building is gone, it's been taken down, nothing left but rubble and debris, Tues 11/16/10 it was completely down...