love all your big hall shots.......

very logan's run architecture

this looks like a prison ! or kinda
thunderdome-ish...and it's true, in general things built after the 1970's
started to really suck bad in terms of durability, craftsmanship, material
quality, etc. the reasons are manifold..
old growth wood statred to become
more scarce, the mafia gained more control than ever over labor and
contracts, developers being shaken
down, official corruption began to
expand drastically, building inspectors
on the take, all these things add up to
inflate building costs, so guys cut corners, in materials, workmanship,
design, safety, ETC. it was [IS] the price
of doing biz at all in the trades....besides,
that slacker attitude was already infecting the culture, alot of work ethics
went out the window in the 80's...

this one is tops!!! orson fucking welles!

reminds me of the shuttlecraft bay in
orig. star trek. kinda looks like LA's
Bradbury building, where the finale to blade runner was shot. this is great, i
pass by on the train all the time and wonder about alot of those postindustrial
sites....

this shot in particular has a very european sensibility

looks sorta planet of the apes..?

ho, ho, ho... iguess it takes a certain frame
of reference to find this picture hilarious.
stuff like this ALWAYS snuck through the culture of the late 70's, kids were allowed to use their imagination back then. mom and dad actually didn't intefere with ther kids' fantasy lives as much. usually batshit crazy stuff like this doesn't survive this long!

i would've loved tp play a tacky joint like this....bad lounge heaven. i would have to wear a polyester shirt with lapels the size of pizza slices...

this bar seems to have a scorcese /
bada bing vibe going on

what a wonderful place to get weird!

actually i was refering to a composiite of individuals who have angrily confronted
anyone they see attempting to look at or even photograph even the exterior of Halcyon, legally from a public road.
my affiliation with the school is complex.
i attended art programs here as a very young child. as a teen after the schoolclosed this property was my stomping grounds, a local rite of passage. i am researching the life and
work of the architect of the building. i
am descended from some of the original investors in the hotel in the 1890's, my family also having been a client of the architect in other building
ventures in millbrook. i was a charter
member of Friends of Halcyon Hall, a
preservation group that got this building
listed on the state and National Register
of Historic Places in the early 90's. i
generally just love this building, it speaks
to me as Art, just like Mott's photos...

mechanical spiders

i agree! there are many other views that should be doc'ed only by mott.. he's the one
with the eye for this shit.
photos of the saloon and ballroom would really do it for me...

this place IS going to go, to the shame of the town that it used to be the heart of.
there is a faint hope of saving the east wing, if artistic / historical voices could be
brought to bear, but i'm afraid anyone who could intervene has already been paid off on this count...

a prominent facade from the Allen & Collens remodeling from the late 20's.
Very tasty Tudor stylings...

actually, my band has played dumps in worse shape than this...

hey, this WAS a weird school- it was like a finishing school for girls who were'nt
necessarily going to finish anything...
they had names like Buffy and Muffy and
Winky, and all universally had very long straight blonde hair, at least the ones who taught me when i was 4. half of the
grad students were all former girlfriends of
timothy leary. i loved them all.

definitely one in a Series of Disasters, huh?

this shot is Down to the Bone...

this is a section of the building designed by the Boston architectural firm of Allen & Collens, best known locally for the majority of buildings on the Vassar campus in Poughkeepsie. though there Tudor additions were
considered apropos for the campus, a great deal of the buildings deterioration began here.

actually this is the part of the complex
that is practically adjacent to the
caretakers residence in the old chapel.
asshead is indeed a prick beyond belief,
this may be the reason for its'
relatively undamaged condition.
the irony of chasing away us enthusiasts
is understandable but futile: clearly
No One Gives A FUCK About This Building!!!!!!

...molting...

this is the shot that DOES scare the
shit outta' me....

i see pollack...