2,174 Comments for Bennett School for Girls

Id pay a small fortune for those curtains....

seems like Oct is a good date for a rumor to demo but as history shows it's a fairy tale and PR wll tell ya the village has no money to do it - frankly if the rumor does come to fruition may it be next Oct when i can be there to see it but until that time ------ the old girl stands to face another winter

Have you heard anything about the demo? I heard it was set for Oct, but that could have been just last years talks getting recirculated.

kudos to your pg rated comment and I laughed at the fact that the stonework will out live us-the wheels of government move slow- just as the degeneration of the old girl- good to see U poke your head in on this conversation--we'll see how winter treats her

i now do not see this place going ANYWHERE anytime soon,
unless Mother Nature Says So, in more dramatic fashion than she has already displayed.

Whatever Millbrook says or does, it has decided it prefers to host
a near legendary ruin, rather than ANY of the alternatives proposed
so far,

In fact, as the TOW Master Plan finally drops on a seemingly catatonic
populace, the years late, more than half a decade report confirms
what most people who live in The Village of Millbrook in the Town of
Washington actually believe.

Specifically, That Halcon Hall /Bennett College should be preserved!
Ha Ha Ha... yeah, a bit late on that one. But go back seven years, and
that was where people stood, that commercial zoning should be
encouraged, but smartly. And that Millbrook's character should also
be preserved.

under order of demolition, yet highly unlikely to face compliance
with any laws other than those of Mother Nature, specifically
decay and gravity, there is official talk again of hoping to "save"
Halcyon's incredible stonework.

Smart idea. What do they have to lose? Money? Sure, but tons of that
has spent just to keep the status quo going there in South Millbrook...
A fraction of it spent on basic stabilization only a dozen years back
would have made the Halcyon story quite a different proposition,
and probably a few bucks even for the right people.

So hell, it's not too late to cash in just a little bit, lol...let's make the
retention of Halcyon's master masonry the new enterprise, to rally
for, or propagandize against, or to maintain ambivalence about.

Even if Nothing were to be done, Tommorrow, even [you know,
just like today!] the stonework here would outlast us all.

hey stax man -if U really want to -get on the web and U can find video of UE in the old girl +other sites show her in depth -have fun

I would give a great deal to come over and endulge in just a mere drink with you Pat and Wanderer.I can see it now as we finish a bbq with our families and go for a small drive to Bennett then toast the old Girl for the coming of age.So Gen Grant was drunk all day then Pat!!! I told my lovely wife that that was i wanted to go when i retired and for some stupid reason she wasnt too keen.I felt that she was being very selfish with the reply as her step dad was a alcoholic and used to be an ar**h***.Chins up my friends.

Looks like a perfect intricate Ginger Bread House C:

It has the perfect place for a chair to sit and look out the window.

With a little silk draping from here and there, this would make a serene bath house. With the soothing sounds from nature up above and the steady drip of water as it falls.

It speaks truth about Fairy Tales. That places like this right here really do exist. Even if its only just an old busted window ledge. This spot was somebody's favorite place to be. If only they could see the natural raw beauty of it now. The muted pale green against the harsh black, with the cream colored day leaking through. Absolute Perfection.

This is so simple. I can almost see a young girl sitting with a book in her hand lazily gazing out while she day dreams. Spectacular photograph Motts. So elegant in its simplicity. C:

PR -glad to see U came out of your abyss-seems like this conversation has to do with spirits from various viewpoints-I would be under the table wth the succession of libations U mentioned- not being a seasoned drinker -all the more for U-stay coherent so U can post later on when something unnerving happens to the OLD GIRL

i thought the same staxman, who sells their best friend a haunted
TV? ha ha, but he didn't know. Or at keast it wasn't haunted in HIS house...which maybe means it's not the TV?! maybe a ghost here
that just happened to clue in through this Sh-tbox from the 30's or whatever..lol...

Halcyon Hall itself has a monumental history of drinking and alcohol
consumption associated with it.. I have always been astonished at
how much rich people drink, compared to even the toughest proletariot.
I actually have to give some signiifanct respect and props to many of their
ability to hold their liquor well. Practice, I guess.

So if there are ghosts, they are drunk as lords,going back to Halcyon's earliest hotel days. when they concocted a tale that Apollinarus water
was the most consumed bevvie, when in reality it was gallons of liquor and wine.

During the college years, it wasn't really a party school, per se.
More like Vassar as opposed to Marist.

But as soon as it was abandoned, it became a haven for the drinking
of cheap beer, and whatever else. A place for the kids to party that
wouldn't bother ANYONE. But good things don't last, eh?

I go through phases, usually it's a couple of Blueberry Pomegranate
Ratchetaritas, then onto some fairly macho beer drinking. But tonight,
I'm knocking back some cold Jim Beam with iced Coors Light, brown bottle.Probably what most Americans would be drinking if the
Confederacy won the Civil War. I'm in a southern mood, which happens from time to time, and for unpredictable reasons.

My favorite story from the Civil War-

Lincoln's Secretary of War beseeched to The President that
the Army's officers complained that General Grant was drunk 24 hours
a day.

"What brand whiskey does Grant drink?" asked Lincoln.

His secretary replied "What difference would that make, Mister
President?"

"Because I want a case of that consigned to ALL of my generals"
trumped Lincoln, who if he hadn't been the greatest American
president, would be known and ranked as almost as great a
Writer as Mark freakin Twain.

So.. a toast to writers [and generals] who could hold their liquor,
and to Halcyon Hall, which turns 120 years old next month...

when i was a child their were still people who were alive to
witness as themselves children, Halcyon being built....

Their generation was weaned on stories from The Civil War,
from the era before "World Wars"....

happy to hear from ya- looks like nothing new with Bennett 'cept the fence- got there last year and walked the perimeter around the back the fence is very close and Bennett Commons [ an apartment complex] is bumped right up there- did my best but no new pics i read parts of it is falling but not much great YET! --will not be going there this year [ my house is screaming for repairs ] but plan a big bust out next year and hope the old girl hangs on for me- no go with UE there- guess my pin feathers keep me from further investigating the the ediface - watch for updates from Ratchet man