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Auditorium

A fairly clean auditorium.
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Yep, clean, home ec./ housekeeping was probably required at an all girls school. Mona Lisa smiles!
gelliebean
Sun 07-10-2005
It is interestng that the seats are still there. In most of these situations that is the first thing to get sold off.
sls
Sat 07-16-2005
Was all parts of this place as clean as this?
hrm
Wed 08-10-2005
Those seats won't be clean and untouched much longer. See that plant coming in the window? I don't know what it is, but if it's wysteria, it'll swallow up the whole auditorium in about a year.
Puddleboy
Sun 11-13-2005
Yep, that's Wysteria..... It's got those twirly vines.

We have Vinca here in California, and let me tell you, that plant eats EVERYTHING!
Lyric
Sun 11-13-2005
"But stay! these walls--these ivy-clad arcades--
These mouldering plinths--these sad and blackened shafts--these vague entablatures--this crumbling frieze--these shattered cornices--this wreck--this ruin--these stones--alas! these gray stones--are they all--all of the famed, and the colossal left. By the corrosive Hours to Fate and me?"
Twug
Tue 11-22-2005
Damn plant life killing mans creations, what does it think it was here before us or something?! Hah, I crack myself up.
Poisonousxbeauty
Thu 12-22-2005
a couple of coats of paint and this place could be used again
Joe
Fri 05-05-2006
The plants coming in the windows is most likey english ivy. It grew all over the building and while the place was in operation, it was kept under control... Wisteria grows in the south/more temperate climes.
flswan63@earthlink.net
Wed 05-24-2006
the auditorium is in the newer, dorm
section of the complex, circa early60's
and is not in such bad shape as the
vintage era structure. this part might
survive, knowing millbrook...
pat ratchet
Thu 05-25-2006
actually, my band has played dumps in worse shape than this...
pat ratchet
Sun 05-28-2006
its not that clean anymore people vandalized the seats and wrote stewey and other things on the big white screen on the stage ... its a shame
robby
Thu 06-22-2006
i sat on that stage on a wam oct night in 97 those florr bords were not missing
james merritt
Mon 12-04-2006
Nice hues.

Vines will probably not stray too far from the window.

We have Wisteria up here, Love them in combination with the Princess Tree(Japan)in bloom together on my B day May 12.
Princess Tree blossoms,orchid like,smell like perfume, Wisteria a little more rank.Nice contrast.
Guitorman
Tue 01-08-2008
I attended a play.. not sure what play-there in 75, 76 or 77-not sure when-I was in grade school-we walked to Bennett from where my school was
jimmy and heather
Sun 05-04-2008
This palce is aswesome, I saw Jethro Tull here in a snowstorm in 1973,,is was really incredible, only ten people attended..I still live here in the area..I love Millbrook
johnnymag3
Mon 05-12-2008
theres soooo much graffiti there now.
its sad ): but if you saw it now, its so un clean
lauren
Sun 10-12-2008
wow this pics amazing,
its wierd to think what happened in that room in the past =]
Lora
Mon 01-12-2009
JM3 -I share your enthusiasm
wanderer
Sat 01-17-2009
I only remember being in this room once... the second day I was at Bennett. We had to fill out a questionnaire... very strange questions to my way of thinking. And we were warned that if we were caught anywhere near Timothy Leary's house we would be expelled.... I was so naive and sheltered that I have NO idea who he was or why we should not go near him! lol
Former resident
Fri 07-17-2009
the state is not allowed to remove any of the furniture.
ms.bennett
Wed 11-04-2009
what wonderful things must have gone on at this school,one can only imagine! :<D
kitty toxic
Mon 11-23-2009
i was in thair just recently what a shame history should be presurved not torn down it sadens me that thair going to tair down a peace of millbrooks history
norm c
Wed 02-17-2010
Looks frigging identical to the one at the local Elementary school here, except the one in the picture is in much better shape.
Gothzilla
Sat 11-13-2010
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.
Larry D
Mon 02-14-2011
Seriously it is not in that bad of shape as of 6/11. Mostly water damage from a leaky roof. The vines have managed to stay out andn the seats are still very much in tact.
Frajing
Tue 06-28-2011
What a great entry. My image of Jesus cminog into a church building is similar to yours. I can definitely see him cminog in, maybe everybody&#8217;s anticipating some amazing singing or preaching or whatever, and instead he says, &#8220;who wants to go out and feed people on the streets with me!&#8221; that, to me, is true worship&#8230;worshiping God by serving others in the same way he came to serve us.
Arenim
Fri 02-10-2012
Just saw this complex yesterday while in the area on business. Blown away. Awed and depressed (?) at the same time. What an amazing piece of history and so in total disrepair. I talked to the locals. No one really has the story - but it has been tied up in the usual political bullsh-- for years. The locals need to get it together and do something. The MIllbrook area is beautiful - do something, people ! Sad piece of history that has been allowed to disintegrate due to greed and in-fighting of personal financial interests. Sad.
PMD
Thu 05-17-2012
the big SHOCK was the collapse of the front facade and PR knows the scoop on the lack of regeneration of the old girl
wanderer
Wed 05-30-2012
Former Resident, that's funny they told you girls to stay away from Timothy Leary's house! Indeed, no place for a proper young lady, he had the real halcyon hall!
Maxwell
Mon 07-09-2012

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