2,174 Comments for Bennett School for Girls

Wow, so often there are people who have noidea what they're talking about when it comes to Halcyon Hall. Looks like Pat Ratchet really has studied the place. Thanks for your interest, when the place is demo'd, my dad's spirit can finally rest.

Mr. Historian, thank you, i stand
corrected! i will inform my source that
they have made my attempts at
presenting history seem feeble and
amatuerish! by the way, where is the stanley hotel you refer to?

It would probably take a fortune to restore it, more then it's worth anyways. I'm definately gonna look into reconstruction though. I've always believed in miracles and this place is one of them. Any idea how much this place would cost just to buy. I might just be able to do it with a little help and advice.

I thought a ballistrade was everything togeather, ralling, spindels and knewls

um nope pat , actually it was the stanley hotel....

From Wisconsin: I've often encountered these "lion paw" bathtubs in low-income apartments in Milwaukee. I live some 50 miles from there now, but I have one of these tubs here in my home. It's quite deep, feels like it's made of cast iron---and it keeps the bath water warm for a very long time!

So, Pat, you have a close connection and history with this school. You should consider yourself lucky that you got to experience being a student there. Friends of Halycon Hall -- have to look them up. It is a beautiful building and, as with all of the other treasures, is a tragedy in waiting. I can certainly understand your frustration!

Knott's Berry Farm was my stomping ground when I was a teen, but that's another can of worms.

actually i was refering to a composiite of individuals who have angrily confronted
anyone they see attempting to look at or even photograph even the exterior of Halcyon, legally from a public road.
my affiliation with the school is complex.
i attended art programs here as a very young child. as a teen after the schoolclosed this property was my stomping grounds, a local rite of passage. i am researching the life and
work of the architect of the building. i
am descended from some of the original investors in the hotel in the 1890's, my family also having been a client of the architect in other building
ventures in millbrook. i was a charter
member of Friends of Halcyon Hall, a
preservation group that got this building
listed on the state and National Register
of Historic Places in the early 90's. i
generally just love this building, it speaks
to me as Art, just like Mott's photos...

Okay, Pat, how are you affiliated with the school?

I agree with you about no one caring about the building -- but who the hell is asshead?

mechanical spiders

i agree! there are many other views that should be doc'ed only by mott.. he's the one
with the eye for this shit.
photos of the saloon and ballroom would really do it for me...

this place IS going to go, to the shame of the town that it used to be the heart of.
there is a faint hope of saving the east wing, if artistic / historical voices could be
brought to bear, but i'm afraid anyone who could intervene has already been paid off on this count...

a prominent facade from the Allen & Collens remodeling from the late 20's.
Very tasty Tudor stylings...

actually, my band has played dumps in worse shape than this...

hey, this WAS a weird school- it was like a finishing school for girls who were'nt
necessarily going to finish anything...
they had names like Buffy and Muffy and
Winky, and all universally had very long straight blonde hair, at least the ones who taught me when i was 4. half of the
grad students were all former girlfriends of
timothy leary. i loved them all.