2,174 Comments for Bennett School for Girls
Tjo wrote:
Amazingly frightening.
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Tjo wrote:
I hate pegboard, especially yellow pegboard.
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Tjo wrote:
My next best favorite - SPECTACULAR!
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wanderer wrote:
Ratchet has a very interesting vocab
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Larry D wrote:
What a neat little nook to lose one's self in studying, reading mail, or just daydreaming while watching the snow fall.
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Larry D wrote:
I can envision dozens of nervous young ladies gathering here for orientation. The energy & excitement must have been palpable. Can you see it? From Victorian dresses at the turn of the 20th Century to jeans & t-shirts in the 1970s, all felt the same apprehension on the first days of school.
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raychellynn wrote:
beautiful beautiful place.
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raychellynn wrote:
this shot is hauting and absolutely fantastic.
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raychellynn wrote:
my mother showed me this place last summer before my sixteenth birthday. this place impacted me so much, i can't even begin to describe. i am a practicing wiccan, and this place has such a powerful spiritual pull i almost cried when my mother said it was time to leave; people we're getting suspicious. we had gone to explore and take some photos [my mother is a photographer]. and it killed me to see some of the...non-natural destruction.
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pat ratchet wrote:
stax V8, you are SOO right about the difference in the level of skill,
between even the Best of Today's Skilled Craftsmen, and the
BadAss ARTISTS who built places like Halcyon Hall!
Not to denigrate the many amazing craftsmen I have worked with, alongside, or for; but the guys who worked practically everday for almost three years, mostly employees of Mead & Taft, from Cornwall NY [and many of whom previously or subsequently moved to Millbrook]
were on another level entirely, not just from today's artisans, these guys blew away most of their talented peers of the cream of the crop of 1893!
My fascination with architecture in general abounds from the
ambition of execution, from an incredible idea, to an even more profound fact of material realization.Someone has to actually
commit- "OK We know guys..... that can DO this"'.......
Irregardless of the genius of a James Ware, or the wild mad
patronage of a Henry J Davison Jr, or the industry of a Mead & Taft,the fact that people could execute
this stuff at such an exceedingly high level, on demand, at a Market Rate,....and SO fast.... much of it on site. Today it would be an
extraordiinary, remarkable thing to even attempt., let alone pull off. In the Gilded Age it
was ROUTINE.And my point has nothing to do with the obscene amount of capital expenditure that made it possible - the amazing thing is how GOOD these guys
were. THe Interior details have been reduced to memories going on almost 2 decades now. But jesus... this place was spectacular.
A stellar production, in every way, only a glimpse of which has survived, even from my own earliest memories.
but JW is right in his own way, I guess... it is certainly a health hazard,
I would not enter without the best respirator mask possible, you'd be
MAD, CRAZY to do so without. Let alone the collapse hazard, etc etc.
And the Millbrook cops will definetly bust your ass, no doubt. Or they'll try, if they are bored. Could be a decision based on doughnuts, but it won't matter if they roust your ass ,right? And they will. So I would totally advise against tresspassing, at least in this paragraph dedicated
to trying to identify with the JW point of view.
ok, enough of that. whew.....ouch that hurts.....
where many people differ is whether it should have been torn down years ago, and what constitues an eyesore.
in my artistic opinion, the place looks pretty darn cool covered in winter snow. ....in the summer...ahhh, not so hot... like a cicada shell!
but i think cicada shells are cool, see? the inevitability of nature, and all that. maybe it takes a viewpoint beyond the here and now.
modern kulture seems so transitory, here today, gone later today...
we don't like to see anything age, yet everything today is about raiding the past. All Hollywood movies are remakes of TV, Broadway has been
reduced to raiding comic books and emo rock for a ticket lure.
Halcyon Hall will be replaced by {shitty] fake Tudor style condos,
Raiding the pAst is called postmodern. I call it fucking Stooopid!
but, really, at least in terms of scenery, [fuck real estate, i could give a rat's ass!] who has it hurt all these years to have a magnificent ruin
as a living reminder of what was once a unique and splendid place?
i can guaran-freakin-tee you it was / is / and will be preferable to
what is coming down the pike! Streetlights! Sidewalks! Etc Etc Et Fuckin Cetera! let's make everywhere look like everywhere else!!!!!
sometimes the life of a work of art, just like the people who create it,
includes it's inevitable decline, perhaps beyond the point that is comfortable for its' audience. Does that say more about art or its'
[sometimes reluctant] public?
The Walkway Over The Hudson was deemed by many self appointed experts to be "unsalvageable". Even after that phallacy was disproven, they attacked the economics of [at least] the tourist boost expected.
They have had to shut the hell up about that since it has been a like the effect of a fucking bomb of commerce and revenue for businesses everywhere in the vicinity of the brigde many called
an "eyesore". I am in no way suggesting any hope for Halcyon to that effect. it is over for Halcyon.And i fully expect the mention to raise the hackles of people who are still OPPONENTS of the walkway [ya know, get over it, it's like saying I'm An Opponent Of Bear MOuntain PArk, Dammit!" What the hell is the matter with you?!? It's There, It's Cool, It's Fun, It cost less than to Demo It,which would have been A good expenditure to you? What the hell is the matter with people who kneejerkingly oppose any government spending at all , except, you know, multiple ruinous wars,bailouts
for Wall street crooks, and monopolies that are "too big to fail"?
My point is: Christ, people seem in a real rush to tear these goddamned places down, long before it is the dire necessity
they seem hellbent on enforcing! Relax! Enjoy the freaking scenery, will ya? It'll be gone soon enough, don't worry, you'll all get your way.
between even the Best of Today's Skilled Craftsmen, and the
BadAss ARTISTS who built places like Halcyon Hall!
Not to denigrate the many amazing craftsmen I have worked with, alongside, or for; but the guys who worked practically everday for almost three years, mostly employees of Mead & Taft, from Cornwall NY [and many of whom previously or subsequently moved to Millbrook]
were on another level entirely, not just from today's artisans, these guys blew away most of their talented peers of the cream of the crop of 1893!
My fascination with architecture in general abounds from the
ambition of execution, from an incredible idea, to an even more profound fact of material realization.Someone has to actually
commit- "OK We know guys..... that can DO this"'.......
Irregardless of the genius of a James Ware, or the wild mad
patronage of a Henry J Davison Jr, or the industry of a Mead & Taft,the fact that people could execute
this stuff at such an exceedingly high level, on demand, at a Market Rate,....and SO fast.... much of it on site. Today it would be an
extraordiinary, remarkable thing to even attempt., let alone pull off. In the Gilded Age it
was ROUTINE.And my point has nothing to do with the obscene amount of capital expenditure that made it possible - the amazing thing is how GOOD these guys
were. THe Interior details have been reduced to memories going on almost 2 decades now. But jesus... this place was spectacular.
A stellar production, in every way, only a glimpse of which has survived, even from my own earliest memories.
but JW is right in his own way, I guess... it is certainly a health hazard,
I would not enter without the best respirator mask possible, you'd be
MAD, CRAZY to do so without. Let alone the collapse hazard, etc etc.
And the Millbrook cops will definetly bust your ass, no doubt. Or they'll try, if they are bored. Could be a decision based on doughnuts, but it won't matter if they roust your ass ,right? And they will. So I would totally advise against tresspassing, at least in this paragraph dedicated
to trying to identify with the JW point of view.
ok, enough of that. whew.....ouch that hurts.....
where many people differ is whether it should have been torn down years ago, and what constitues an eyesore.
in my artistic opinion, the place looks pretty darn cool covered in winter snow. ....in the summer...ahhh, not so hot... like a cicada shell!
but i think cicada shells are cool, see? the inevitability of nature, and all that. maybe it takes a viewpoint beyond the here and now.
modern kulture seems so transitory, here today, gone later today...
we don't like to see anything age, yet everything today is about raiding the past. All Hollywood movies are remakes of TV, Broadway has been
reduced to raiding comic books and emo rock for a ticket lure.
Halcyon Hall will be replaced by {shitty] fake Tudor style condos,
Raiding the pAst is called postmodern. I call it fucking Stooopid!
but, really, at least in terms of scenery, [fuck real estate, i could give a rat's ass!] who has it hurt all these years to have a magnificent ruin
as a living reminder of what was once a unique and splendid place?
i can guaran-freakin-tee you it was / is / and will be preferable to
what is coming down the pike! Streetlights! Sidewalks! Etc Etc Et Fuckin Cetera! let's make everywhere look like everywhere else!!!!!
sometimes the life of a work of art, just like the people who create it,
includes it's inevitable decline, perhaps beyond the point that is comfortable for its' audience. Does that say more about art or its'
[sometimes reluctant] public?
The Walkway Over The Hudson was deemed by many self appointed experts to be "unsalvageable". Even after that phallacy was disproven, they attacked the economics of [at least] the tourist boost expected.
They have had to shut the hell up about that since it has been a like the effect of a fucking bomb of commerce and revenue for businesses everywhere in the vicinity of the brigde many called
an "eyesore". I am in no way suggesting any hope for Halcyon to that effect. it is over for Halcyon.And i fully expect the mention to raise the hackles of people who are still OPPONENTS of the walkway [ya know, get over it, it's like saying I'm An Opponent Of Bear MOuntain PArk, Dammit!" What the hell is the matter with you?!? It's There, It's Cool, It's Fun, It cost less than to Demo It,which would have been A good expenditure to you? What the hell is the matter with people who kneejerkingly oppose any government spending at all , except, you know, multiple ruinous wars,bailouts
for Wall street crooks, and monopolies that are "too big to fail"?
My point is: Christ, people seem in a real rush to tear these goddamned places down, long before it is the dire necessity
they seem hellbent on enforcing! Relax! Enjoy the freaking scenery, will ya? It'll be gone soon enough, don't worry, you'll all get your way.
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stax v8 wrote:
I wander if the followers of this site agree with you on that comment JDubya.Do you see structures of this high standard being constructured today?It would cost a fortune and a half to build simular and i think the skill in building has gone.A lot of the way things were done back then just aint done anymore.The eyesore part of the comment is Your opinion,and i suppose thats ok because I for one dont agree.This place is awesome and to stay the night in one of the rooms where most of the gatherings took place would be the best.Sad that time is going to be its fate,Thanx MOTTS
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