2,174 Comments for Bennett School for Girls

theres like 10 times more graffiti then that now.

theres soooo much graffiti there now.
its sad ): but if you saw it now, its so un clean

ive driven past it the windows glow orange at night

Nice job (of course) Motts! I passed by this place this weekend & you would have explored it!

Wow, how awesome is that! This is such a wonderful photograph. I should check this place out sometime! -Lives in NY-

I lived in the area decades ago. I am so sad to see that the building has been let go. I remember how beautiful it was when it was still kept up. It made Millbrook special. I am amazed that the city let it go.

Harmony, i think if you were a kid
you wouldnt see the beauty in that place.

it is still currently standing

the stage reminds me of a part in a clockwork orange althought hte chairs weren't there in the movie

I was just in there a few days ago and it is cool to see that most of the damage is from the building falling apart more than being vandalized. It's an awesoome place and if there were a way to sign a waiver saying if I got hurt there and no one is responsible (but myself) I would just to go in legally.

I was just in there a few days ago and it is cool to see that most of the damage is from the building falling apart more than being vandalized. It's an awesoome place and if there were a way to sign a waiver saying if I got hurt there and no one is responsible (but myself) I would just to go in legally.

ahh to be a child and have something so beautiful near you , the imaginations must run wild here. i think its a great shot of old and new eras !!!

I was in the last class admitted to Bennett College... only there 1 year. I have many great memories from this place. This was such a small school... after it snowed, we would go knock on the school presidents front door of his house and borrow sleds and stuff to go sleigh riding on the golf course next door... that was the best. I would love to correspond with other bennett alumni... you can reach me at: geburke3@gmail.com.

I was in the last class to attend Bennett College. It closed in the summer of 1977. By this time it was co-ed. Living on campus 250 girls and about 24 guys. I remember Halcyon hall like it was yesterday.

These are very moving, wonderfully heartfelt thoughts: both the earlier good times and the years leading to Bennett's closing, the desgracefull negligence of the Millbrook goverance and community indifference which led to this "haunted house" for those not imbued with the College campus and its inhabitants; students, faculty and administration when it was such a rich and vfital living community.
As it turned out, finally, over the years accumulated teaching in other Colleges and Universities (MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, University of North Carolina, Dartmouth, Queens, SUNY Purchase---the latter which I left Bennett to found the Division of Visual Arts Sculpture Department) that I came to the realization that Bennett was indeed way, way up there, a remarkable school. And isn't this outpouring a testament and a well-deserved tribute to Miss May Friend Bennett's school!?
I'm going to add some more considered comments soon. In the meantime, drop me a line I'd love to hear from the extended Bennett family!
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