2,174 Comments for Bennett School for Girls
wanderer wrote:
at nite huh - my eyes are green with envy
- Location: Bennett School for Girls
- Gallery: Close Calls
Broadway wrote:
I think if this house was like the house in "Burnt Offerings", it could save itself.
I can hear Karen Black now, "I've been waiting for you Ben"!
I can hear Karen Black now, "I've been waiting for you Ben"!
- Location: Bennett School for Girls
- Gallery: Close Calls
wanderer wrote:
when i first visited Millbrook it was like a Stepford wife town HOWEVER it has changed from within-still the antique shops and Allen diner - Vincents- give it an olde world flavor yet we see the change a comin' like gone is the Millbrook Roundtable what next Mr. Wing giving tours during the week ?
- Location: Bennett School for Girls
- Gallery: Close Calls
Donna wrote:
sorry for the spelling error... Hats off to Motts and Pat..... etc. etc..
- Location: Bennett School for Girls
- Gallery: Close Calls
Donna wrote:
Tats off to Motts and Pat for keeping us informed and for letting us "inside" Halcyon Hall and to Simon for a "wake-up, this is it in a nutshell" reminder that at this stage nothing can be saved here. Having lived 5 minutes from Bennett until my late teens, then returning 5 years ago to take my own pictures inside , I can vouch for the state of the ruined condition.... but even in this condition the workmanship is evident, just really awesome... I wish I have had the chance to wander these halls before I left in '77'. Just one of those places that was let go and no one cared until it was too late...
- Location: Bennett School for Girls
- Gallery: Close Calls
pat ratchet wrote:
simon- thank you for your post. it has to be said that halcyon hall is unsalvageable, no matter what other issues are debated here.
to wanderer- there still is no hard date set
on halcyon's demo, despite all the [wrong!]
PREDICTIONS I HAVE speculated on this board! i try to be up to date, and the halcyon saga has been as byzantine a story as there
ever has been in the annals of American preservation, or, non- preservation, as it were.. I'd bet that by the fall? but i also anticipate many more lawsuits!!! LOL!...
so....David Sloan was right, all hope for this building was lost by about 1994 at the latest,
on a structural, business, and practical basis.
Millbrook is inching closer though, to a resolution. The village held a meeting adressing the issue of code compliance of unsafe properties. The legalese / wording of the law was changed. Barricading or fencing off an unsafe property will no longer be acceptable as a remedy for an unsafe structure. This is the first step towards requiring the demolition of Halcyon to comply
with building codes.The change in the law is being touted as a remedy to derelict properties throughout the municipality. Anyone making this assertion is Full of Shit.
You can tell them Pat Ratchet Said So!
It is aimed squarely at The Bennett property
Situation. It's the only derelict property in Millbrook, literally! Has anyone been their lately? Every property is way dialed in... Millbrook is so beauttiful on a scenery basis.....
I would predict the blumenthal plan is dead in the water. In many ways that is unfortunate,
as THEIR PLAN DID PROVIDE FOR SOME PRESERVATION. The village may now be forced to demo out of compliance. This will cost millions, trust me. And that is before all the kickbacks that will be required. Anyone who denies that is a liar.
The positive end will be public safety [that is, if the asbestos is removed properly, WHICH IT NEVER IS!!! anyone who says it is, can ALSO BE INCLUDED ON MY LIST OF LIARS.]
With Halcyon gone, perhaps proper development could occur, as opposed
to the sledgehammer job that probably would have ocurred. Existing properties will be able to be free of the hindrance this adjacent
problem has visited upon them.
That the property would not be SO heavily overdeveloped is probably the smart concern.
Which must be balanced against the fiscal requirement of the village to have some plan
for the eventual disposition of this property.
Not to mention the actual owner of Halcyon Hall.
this has all gone on so much longer than anyone would have foreseen.
i do believe this year that their will be some resolution of alot of these matters, and that the building will be demolished sometime in 09. but i have been wrong before, haven't I heh..heh...
thanks as always Motts, for doing the things you do, the way you do them...
shameless plug: look for a pat ratchet guest column in the Poughkeepsie Journal ANY DAY NOW, about historic preservation.! ok....
to wanderer- there still is no hard date set
on halcyon's demo, despite all the [wrong!]
PREDICTIONS I HAVE speculated on this board! i try to be up to date, and the halcyon saga has been as byzantine a story as there
ever has been in the annals of American preservation, or, non- preservation, as it were.. I'd bet that by the fall? but i also anticipate many more lawsuits!!! LOL!...
so....David Sloan was right, all hope for this building was lost by about 1994 at the latest,
on a structural, business, and practical basis.
Millbrook is inching closer though, to a resolution. The village held a meeting adressing the issue of code compliance of unsafe properties. The legalese / wording of the law was changed. Barricading or fencing off an unsafe property will no longer be acceptable as a remedy for an unsafe structure. This is the first step towards requiring the demolition of Halcyon to comply
with building codes.The change in the law is being touted as a remedy to derelict properties throughout the municipality. Anyone making this assertion is Full of Shit.
You can tell them Pat Ratchet Said So!
It is aimed squarely at The Bennett property
Situation. It's the only derelict property in Millbrook, literally! Has anyone been their lately? Every property is way dialed in... Millbrook is so beauttiful on a scenery basis.....
I would predict the blumenthal plan is dead in the water. In many ways that is unfortunate,
as THEIR PLAN DID PROVIDE FOR SOME PRESERVATION. The village may now be forced to demo out of compliance. This will cost millions, trust me. And that is before all the kickbacks that will be required. Anyone who denies that is a liar.
The positive end will be public safety [that is, if the asbestos is removed properly, WHICH IT NEVER IS!!! anyone who says it is, can ALSO BE INCLUDED ON MY LIST OF LIARS.]
With Halcyon gone, perhaps proper development could occur, as opposed
to the sledgehammer job that probably would have ocurred. Existing properties will be able to be free of the hindrance this adjacent
problem has visited upon them.
That the property would not be SO heavily overdeveloped is probably the smart concern.
Which must be balanced against the fiscal requirement of the village to have some plan
for the eventual disposition of this property.
Not to mention the actual owner of Halcyon Hall.
this has all gone on so much longer than anyone would have foreseen.
i do believe this year that their will be some resolution of alot of these matters, and that the building will be demolished sometime in 09. but i have been wrong before, haven't I heh..heh...
thanks as always Motts, for doing the things you do, the way you do them...
shameless plug: look for a pat ratchet guest column in the Poughkeepsie Journal ANY DAY NOW, about historic preservation.! ok....
- Location: Bennett School for Girls
- Gallery: Close Calls
KARILYN RANGER wrote:
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING. HOW SAD IT LOOKS NOW. IMAGINE THE HISTORY AND IF WALL COULD TALK.
- Location: Bennett School for Girls
- Gallery: Close Calls
wanderer wrote:
pat- how can I find out date of supposed demo of Halcyon hall - my annual trip to Millbrook is coming soon and could plan it around the demo
- Location: Bennett School for Girls
- Gallery: Close Calls
renee wrote:
wonder where those stairs lead....
- Location: Bennett School for Girls
- Gallery: Close Calls