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Awesome stone work. I'll guess the back entrance to the dungeon sub levels. Stretch racks, iron maidens. "Corrective measures" for young boys caught masturbating and girls that dared to take their panties off. Included spectator galleries for the clergy I'm sure. (Yes, I'm going to hell now! :oD)

Organist needs to know when to start banging out some Alice Cooper. In this case, professional salvage operations would have paid money to strip this place. Profit has to be there to get these things to a good home so they can live on. Some well-wishers may find that offensive, but it's the only option left.

Awesome lights no doubt. I'm sure somebody grabbed those. I count 17 in one image alone. Yeah, turns in the pipes were all assembled before placing them. Had to be, there's no other way. :o)

I've seen that on my grilled cheese sandwich!

Looks like two very nice slabs of marble there. Amazing some dummy would smash those those and toss them.

Used for? I'll guess funeral viewings and memorial services? Strange there's a "church junior" under the big one. Perhaps for when two events happened at the same time. Get married upstairs, and die downstairs?

Man who fart in church sit in own pew.

Did they have the tin man and the scarecrow too?

From the cracks around some of that stuff, those cast plaster elements in the arches just might come off intact. Did anyone even try?

There are elements to save, but be aware that some things cannot. Plasterwork applied in place is near impossible to remove. Tiles and other elements applied can be so well attached, getting them off without breaking them can be near impossible.

hola halcyoneros... the progress of disposition of the Bennett campus
has hit several snags, none insurmountable in this humble writers
opinion. #1 The swimming pool, tennis courts, poolhouse, and
terrace that serve the adjacent Bennet Commons condominium
complex [built c.1984] need to be relocated in order to turn the
property into the planned public park. So far, the condo board has
declined the site offered, despite it's proximity to their property.
It's current location is a walk away from the complex. It's awkward
siting resulted from the Byzantine zoning of the campus after the college closed, resulting in an equally awkward easement. Wherever
sited, a new pool complex will cost well over a half million dollars.
Whoever pays for it. The condo residents do not want to be on
the hook for ANY of it, to the extent of insisting that they are happy with the current arrangement, and any proposal for resiting their
amenities must be to their satisfaction. Inconveniently for this proposal,
they do have a point. Up to a point. Regressive assessment for their
own properties is occurring presently. A plan that removes the hazard
is certainly in their interest as much as equivocal facilities, especially
one that is not accompanied by an uncharacteristic high density
development [which would have negatively offset any increase in
property values seen by the inevitable demo of Halcyon, anyway.]
If one looks at the current situation, [Hazard/ Blight] the only one
that condo development has ever known, this park proposal is a
freakin godsend, by any measure. But there is probably a lot more to it all than I know, for Sure. Hopefully there is a solution, because a lot
of care and planning have gone into this assuredly.At the end of the day
those condominiums have more to gain than ANYBODY, as they would
now be literally sited as neighbours with what is going to be a very
beautiful park and garden.
It is not my place to say, and I am disparaging no one, I may be
totally wrong. But in my opinion, I've NEVER EVER seen ANYONE
using that pool. Ever. Or the tennis courts. Ever. Ever. And in fact,
IT's own siting and poolhouse, is as much a freakin eyesore as it's
falling neighbor,frankly. Any replacement anywhere on the propert[ies?]
would be better, in fact. Hopefully it is resolved to their satisfaction,
so the larger picture can come to fruition. At some ideal juncture,
all these interests are direct neighbors, or are going to be. Insisting
on status quo in terms of "rights", while being the principal beneficiaries
of the complex plans
is a bit of 'cake and eating it too', but I believe in their absolute right
to do so; They will be neighbors of a public park, though.
Perhaps it would be better, in the words of LBJ, to "have them
inside the tent pissing out, rather than outside the tent pissing in..."
in other words, absolutist positions often result in loss of any input or
influence at all over the inevitable.
Perhaps they may find that they miss the Hall of Halcyon that they disparage
so much, that in her hulking rundown way, the old girl was somehow a better neighbor
than what followed. just a thought....?

2. Palpable trepidation over the inevitable demolition and it's
environmental impacts. However well performed. This paradoxically
paired with concurrent calls for code compliance, insisting on a status
report for scheduled dates of demolition by the building department.
They also have a solid point, in light of pressure from other permitted
or non permitted usage, etc.

This is great. There are no villains here in the current saga, finally.
Just a complex situation where everyone has a valid position in their
own, and sometimes mutual interest. Hell that's progress! It really is....


3. TG Tribute Garden LLC, the foundation that has bought the properties
to adjoin with the Village Of Millbrook's venerable Tribute Gardens
[an absolute local treasure] is requesting resident's patience with
the length and delay of progress on the plan. This is a super-complicated process relative to these properties, that viewed on
a map resemble puzzle pieces... some interlocking, some not,
bound by streams, state and county highways, as well as quiet country lanes, Public property abutiing private residences, mixed usage zoning,
etc. The campus map is like a salamander.....
But the map reveals it's possibilities, with the right sort of eyes as it
were. An intimate knowledge of the countours of the campus,
and it's original historic entrance to the village, long ago obliterated,
is absolutely at work within the plan for Bennet's eventual renovation.
It is just very difficult. I feel assured, knowing how long it can take to
Get Something RIGHT. And that there are people who do accomplish very
Complicated Things. This is one of those things.

There are solutions. And they are right there on the map to see.
....at indeterminate cost. But certainly beneficial to all.

In any event it is worthwhile to remember, that No One HAD TO do
any of this, you know? it almost became completely FUBAR down there

Best not to put too much pressure on the casting Dept, now that we
have a great cast finally, for the best movie that can be made from
this script.
just my two roman coins,-hasta

In the city I grew up in, much incredible architecture has been demolished and tossed away. The lack of regard for the craftspeople that built these buildings is an atrocity. They won't be back, neither will more of such creations, nor the old growth forests cut to construct them. Commercial salvage operations will come in and strip these places so at least the parts of them can live on, and be with people who value them. It's almost like angry people insist the old building be destroyed out of some kind of vengeful attitude. Like, "Finally! make that horrible old stuff go away NOW!"

Now it isn't on the home page but it is in the threads. ? ? ?
Weird

Hey Motts,
There is an error on the forum It starts showing itself once on the home page then multiplies like this on other pages.
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I'm not sure if it is harming anything or a security problem but when I post I have to go back then refresh to see it.

Excelentes fotos!