2,174 Comments for Bennett School for Girls

i just read the Millbrook Independent is going defunct !!!!!

people believe what they want to

So I got removed from the facebook Halcyon Group Page that was hidden. Can't remember who invited me, but the reason was because I proved some fool's "ghost sighting photo" ( a picture of a white spot seen through the window of the east wing ) was just the damned window on the otherside of the room.

What is life?

http://i.imgur.com/gia2SnD.png
http://i.imgur.com/pRIicfw.png

I had an encounter with this same person before a year or so ago... about "orbs" and how what he was seeing was dust falling close to the lens as he took the picture... But apparently pointing that out made me a "arrogant prick" and that "I wasn't there, he was"

Anyway that is my rant now XD

She is still standing okay, the center of Halcyon has collapsed some more in the court yard but relatively unchanged for east and west wing.

Mica,
The 3 on the left look like steam pipes, the big one in the middle may be a sewer line. The small ones look like water pipes

hey guys i found a site New York Social Diary tues 1-6-2015 wonderful pics of millbrook and history mentions the Wing family hear me PRW and oakleigh thorne i learned alot and looking at the pics make me want to go back SOON !!!!!!hope U can find the site a MUST for those not able to go there

read my post for Oct--- I actually like the old girl now u can see inside a little better never got inside- don't know how long oakleigh thorne will keep things on hold

How is the old gal holding up these days?

Pat Ratchet, once posted the first snow upstate N.Y. is usually a heavy one. Seems they are getting a winter storm today. 11/21/16

Hopefully we get new sets of pictures of the exterior, she has made it yet again to winter. She is always so pretty covered in a fresh blanket of snow. Happy Holiday's to everyone. ... Another year.

hey Stax are you okay ?????

hi guys just got back from Millbrook-- Bennett is no worse for the wear looks like more windows out and the fence says new owner no tresspassing- usually i walk around the grounds taking pics but didn't know how far to push it beautiful weather anyhow

Yay, information on your book. I liked your observation that "Halcyon" may have been a more desirable neighbor, than what is planned for the future". Halcyon decrepit as it is was a buffer.
Glad to see your post's, Pat and Wanderer.

welcome back PWR-- i will be in Millbrook next month don't expect to see rmuch but someday it'll change-- a turtle move for sure- guess u told us more than the Independent where can I see the plans? the library ??? does city hall have them would like to see !!! will be there 8-12

A quick hi to everyone, so many of us now.!
Sorry to have Abandoned here, but lovers of abandoned places must
surely understand!
Thanks for so many kind words. I can now say my book should {?} be
Out in October of 2017.

"Town & Country: The Architecture of James E. Ware & Sons"

Look for it. I'm going to blanket promo the whole known solar system
for it. I will drop details in Spring, but it will be available online, as well
as retail initially throughout the tri state area. It will be accompanied by an exhibition, lectures, signings, and other events. I am trying with
some difficulty to keep the cover price reasonable.
Thanks so much for all your interest and enthusiasm, it is encouraging.

PS- esp. Luciferos, my friend, I missed yr post back when, a bit late of
me, but thanks and greetings all the same. Peace and wellness, man.
I know what you mean about Millbrook. No matter. And give my regards to that special girl we know...
All the best-P

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