BENNETT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (also known as HALCYON HALL) - MILLBROOK, NY 

This school was originally constructed in 1890 as Halcyon Hall - a luxury hotel. The building is designed in the elaborate Victorian Queen Anne style and consisted of 200 rooms in 5 stories, plus a basement and sub-basement. The hotel never really caught on and was only open for about 11 years.  It was vacant until another a buyer was found eight years later. The Bennett School for Girls, originally founded in Irvington N.Y. by Miss May Bennett, found Halcyon Hall quite suitable as a new home in 1907. Bennett College struggled in the 1970s to stay open and entered bankruptcy in 1977. The school was closed for good one year later.  Several attempt to redevelop the property failed in the 1980s, and the title was acquired by a savings bank subsidiary. When the bank went out of business in 1991, its assets including Bennett College were seized by the FDIC. An agreement was reached to place Halcyon Hall on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 but the town of Millbrook is trying to have the place demolished so they can put up condos...here's some photos taken there last weekend.  It was too scary to go into the main structure (and it was posted) but we did manage to get into the dorm areas.  You could see that this was a very nice place at one time but the passage of time has not been kind to it...