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all the dyed wool fans are getting in on this where is Stax ? Mica looks like lights out ha ha

Here is a YouTube drone flyover video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4k5DzX4T4A

...taken back in September of 2021, showing a massive collapse on one of her sides, it seems all of the collapses have been around the chimney stacks. You had a great life, Halcyon Hall, in both an active & an abandoned school. Such a beautiful place, even as time & nature took their toll on her. Rest well, Miss Bennett, you deserve it.

Thanks those imgur pics are nice.

i'd love to have a piece of this history hint hint like a piece of the rock foundation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

absolutely shocked !!!!! its really happening !!!!!!! pinch me!!!!! PLEASE keep them coming--- by october the site will be unrecognizable

Felicity,

Thanks for the newest update, with the photos & the video link too. Sorry about your drone. Looks like the clock is about to strike midnight on the life of Bennett, at least we'll have the galleries from Motts, from you & if memory serves, I think Pat has shared some photos as well to remember her & the lifespan she had. Like with Grossinger's Resort & many other famous places, this will be a huge loss to the urbex & abandoned places community.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it looks as though our time with Halcyon is truly nearing its end. I made another run down to Millbrook today, and Halcyon is about the only building left standing. The May F. Bennett chapel is still there, Pat, but those two are it. I keep forgetting to take photos of it, because it's set so far back from the rest of the complex. Carroll Hall is completely demolished, as well as Alumnae Hall and its auditorium. The Bennett campus hasn't looked the way it did today since the early fifties, and somehow it was more recognizable like this than with the buildings there. Here are the pictures, for those of us who can't make it there.

https://imgur.com/a/7xfuILs

While I was there, they were cleaning up the rubble from the earlier demos. Based on that, and on the progress they've made since this video from Antiquity Echoes that was taken a week and a half ago, we have about another week left, maybe a little longer.

https://www.facebook.c...73901963&ref=sharing

I was planning, in these final days, to cap off Halcyon's existence with a big project. However, it appears that she doesn't want to be disturbed. I was planning on flying my drone through the interior, to get one final look on camera, but I couldn't fly closer than 50 feet without completely losing control of it. I tried a couple of times, but each time I tried to get any closer, it went wobbly, and when it straightened itself back out, it would be both further from the building, and pointing away from it. After the last attempt, I managed to get it back to me, but when I went to land it, it shot right out into the road as if it were possessed, and got totaled. I know when to take a hint, so if I ever manage to put it back together, it's staying far away from Bennett.

https://imgur.com/a/Q14U6EK

Pat, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one dreaming of Halcyon, though it seems our dreams differ somewhat. I have one every week or two, ever since November 2020, when I first visited. Usually it's still ruined, and usually it isn't the focus of the dream. Sometimes it is though, and occasionally it looks brand new, though those tend to be set in the past. I've even had one that felt so real, that it was as if it was a memory. Who knows, though? My dreams tend to be atypical anyways. No singing, Shakespearean, skateboarding giraffes for me.

thanks Felicity for the update. It looks like the Chapel has been demoed? Too bad, seems like they could have maybe saved that, the way they changed plans last minute on Hale House.
As far as 'dreaming' of Halcyon, I suppose I mean it more poetically
or metaphorically, though occasionally I do in fact dream of it, and it is restored, or open again. And I'm always amazed in the dream that it has been preserved, because I know in real life it never could be. So it is sort of dreaming disbelief, and usually makes me aware I am dreaming. Usually one wakes up when one is aware of one's own dream state. But like most dreams, then something like a 3-D wall opens up with giraffes on skateboards singing Shakespeare or whatever, right?
So Dutchess County has dedicated funds to Millbrook's project to establish a scenic park here, to preserve open space. That is good news.
be safe, halcyon people!

we can't deny, there are spirits in this house, you shut the door, the wind closes two more..

Nature and time always win in the end. Before man was and long after man has gone the wildlife will reclaim all of it's property.

These old decaying buildings are becoming living organisms in their own right; with personalities and self-protective mechanisms. The paint on the walls peel and leftover pictures are sucked into the wall itself.

This is so sad. Some patient did that butterfly, they're long gone now, and the picture's just left to rot, a mute reminder that SOMEBODY was there at one point.

Damn that sucks. No private rooms in this place at all. Motts, you prob. already know this, but be on the lookout for asbestos in these places. Get a P100 respirator, your body will thank you in 20 years. I have been wandering around abandoned places myself, and I always see ppl exploring without protective gear. Read up on smoking, asbestosis, ans mesothelioma, it's bad shit, you don't want it. Not enough morphine in the world.

This would be a great idea for a house on a lake.
It would be basically the same design and made with a material that can stand up to water and insects and other types of damage.
Once that is solved then it will become a beautiful home.
Thank you for the wonderful photos.

The window on this door reminds me of some of the doors in the Army Barracks when I was stationed in Germany. This rectangular window on the door in this picture is vey similar to the doors in the Army Buildings. These Army Barracks widows were designed in a more square shape with wire mesh in between two plates of glass. These doors were at the first floor landing at the bottom of the stairs and also on the second floor landing at the top of the stairs. Our barracks only had two floors and a basement. There might have been a few more doors with wire mesh windows in the basement but I cannot really remember. I was very rarely ever down in the basement. We had some old tents down there and some old tool boxes. Sometimes some of the Soldiers would go down there to clean their M-16 A1 weapons. Most of the Soldiers would clean their weapons in their barracks rooms. I went down there in the basement a couple of times to clean my weapon but I did like being down in the basement too much so I almost always cleaned my weapon in my barracks room. {{ I got an un-easy feeling when I was down there in the basement. }} A few times I went to the billiards room on the first floor to clean my weapon but I hardly ever did that. [[ These old Army Barracks were used by the German Army during World War Two. ]] I later heard that sometime in the Late 1990's or the Early 2000's the German Government had torn down most of these buildings and had built new houses for young German Families with small children and had built a kindergarten and also an elementary school. Any way the doors for the actual barrack rooms did not have any windows. There were regular windows on the inside the barracks rooms on the walls and regular window at the end of the hallways. One time late at night, around midnight or 1:00 o'clock in the morning or so a Soldier got drunk and he punched the wire mesh window on the second floor. The window was cracked but it held. That was a very strong window considering that it was around 40 years old or more at the time that he smashed it with his fist. This incident happened in 1988 in the summer time. These buildings were built somewhere in the 1930's when Hitler was getting ready for war. The Soldier had to report to the First Sergeant and the Commanding Officer (a Major) along with his Platoon Leader (a Captain) and his Platoon Sergeant (a Sergeant First Class) along with his First Line Supervisors (this means his Staff Sergeant and his Sergeant). We heard that the XO (Meaning the Executive Officer) was there too. (( We were a Field Artillery Unit. )) What was said in that room ? :: Know Body Knows. :: . About 3 or 4 months later the Soldier was taken to Frankfurt, Germany and he was flown back to the United States for out processing of the United States Army. The rest of us Soldiers never did know what the story was or why or what happened or anything. That drunk Soldier never did say a word about it. When he was asked about it that Soldier would just clam up. So everybody just left him alone.
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These walls in the above photograph look like a shower room or a bathroom.
Take it easy everyone.
Hope that this year is better for everyone than the last couple of years.
Stay healthy and safe.