2,174 Comments for Bennett School for Girls

the wall to the left is now gone also

its not that clean anymore people vandalized the seats and wrote stewey and other things on the big white screen on the stage ... its a shame

going in there at night is even scarier ... a bunch of my friends and i did it, pretty crazy

there is no spoon

great pic. really quite jarring

say, motts, have you ever seen hrishikesh hirway's work? he's primarily a musician, but he does his own album photography. your black and white stuff is a lot like his.

lovely. i want to walk out on that porch...

a local photographer,also the co founder of Hudson Valley Paranormal investigations was awarded 1st prize in
a contest for best Ghost picture, by the
Sci Fi channel as a promotion for it's program "Ghost Hunters''. The photo is a nightime exterior shot of Bennet/Halcyon
Hall purporting to show a ghostly image of a woman in one of the courtyard windows, actually the "children's wing"
of the building.It is in the life section of today's Poughkeepsie Journal. It looks like a shrouded figure, kinda religious.
it would probably scare the shit outta me in person, but in the foto it seems like
alot of these "sightings'', what i call the
"Jesus-on-a-Taco'' images. But who knows?

great shot. i am so intrigued by this place. i'm from wappingers, not to far from millbrook. has anyone tried to offer the mean old man money for a tour?

"On the stair a shadowed creeped,
Beckoning me to follow....."

I read this somewhere in High School, anyone help me out here? It was an old classic.

These photos are all absolutely brilliant. Nancy's right--it's a sin to let such beatuiful buildings rot away when the massive funds invested to restore them could easily be regained many times over. I'm not sure I'd want to turn it into apartments, however--a place like this, I'd want all to myself!

I just can't get over how beautiful and serene it looks. It has a romantic rusticness (is that a word?) about it, the sort of place where Hemingway would work on his latest stories. Just amazing.

Except for myself and a few other cousins who were also born too late, all of the women in my mom's family attended Bennet at some point from the '50s through the '70s (my mom actually attended Bennet with her own niece who was barely a week younger). I think Pat Ratchet was quite right: from what I've been told, it was very much a "Mona Lisa Smile," Buffy/Muffy/Cookie sort of school for affluent girls to learn how to land equally affluent husbands. But I'll have you know that the women in my family have dark hair, not blonde! I don't know if they ever had flings with Timothy Leary, but for humor's sake, I certainly hope so.

the grudge no

why the hell is there a dam tub that small in the school and why is there ppolice still watching the building from what iread up top

I see the light!
Just beautiful!