Hey Kiddies

This is a very creepy shot!

I'd be wandering off, never to return.

Lmao

Nauseous, it would certainly pique interest with some kids!

In fact, I'm getting a creepy film type scene in my head, the kids playing, a couple playing catch with the basketball, suddenly a screeching noise from the building, drawing the kids attention and they all walk out the fence and up to the building, leaving this desolate scene!

These lucky little tikes will grow up with a Huge respect for Old Buildings...FABULOUS !

that place is the defonition of haunted house, at least in appearance

Ok kids have fun out there don't talk to any strangers especially ones wearing really old clothes, and stay away from the boogy man........... alright now go have fun!

Such a stark contrast.
I say we demolish the playground and save the school. It's so beautiful, pity they're going to let it fall.

I wonder how manyt older brothers and sisters told the little ones that somthing horrible lived in that place.

I'm sure in that area theres quite a few urban legends surrounding the building.

Too bad it seems too far gone to save. It looks like it must have been a beautiful building in its day back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

IT CAN BE SAVED, TWUG. AND WHAT A GREAT CHALLENGE AND HONOR IT WOULD BE TO WORK ON IT; I'M IN THE CONSTRUCTION FIELD.

I wish you could save it Marty. But it looks like a good stiff wind would blow it down. It must have been absolutely gorgeous. I especially love the turret.

I can just imagine parents saying "Now play nice, you don't want to go to that school, now do you?

I don't find this scary, but rather, profoundly sad. If ever a buildiing could shed tears, this one surely would. Mr.Motts, your photos are incredibly stunning and also something of an epilogue since the town has now approved development on this property. Shame on their disregard for glorious architecture and history.

I thought it was the Munsters' back yard, and that was Eddie's sandbox. (LOL)

Im in awe!!!

Seeing this building just makes me swell with American pride at how we sure do like things big and excessive! Hayl Yeah! I just wish the people in power were the ones who appreciated our forefathers' love for size and beauty. Ican't help but wonder, though, that huge building full of girls. f Ms. Bennett didn't run a tight ship, can you imagine all that giggling and screaming?

wow!!!!!!!!!! what an amazing place! i soooooooooo want to look round it for myself!

NORMAN......NORMAN BATES IS THAT YOU!!!!!

uf!!

If i was by there i'd go metnal hearing screaming of insane ppl..insane ppl rule

If i was by there i'd go metnal hearing screaming of insane ppl..insane ppl rule
quoted by: Meghan

It takes one to know one..oh you are just illiterate, not mentally challenged as well I hope?

Personally, I think it has a kind of sad beauty to it...

Then again, I'm just weird like that. the crazy architecture just appeals to me somehow...

And I'd rather have that overlooking a playground than some dreadful housing estate (I think that's what it's gonna be now, right?)

wow what a scary ohhh i ahve to clean my shat

Is this the neighbor's front yard? LOL

why am i suddenly thinking of Rose Red when i see this? wonder if any of those kids ever did go in...
beautiful shot

this is the playground of the nursery school that was dragged to the halcyon lawn from atop the nearby hill. i attended
nursery school here in the 70-71, what a magical place it was! it was the training school for Bennet College's acclaimed elementary teaching program. the school
was est c.1930's. it was removed to here
in the late 80's, and the school has just
closed it's doors. funny, great school in
one of the most well to do towns in the northeast, closing, sitting on the property
of another great old school, long closed..

great pic. really quite jarring

it does remind me of rose red. "oh i love the house, it just likes to EAT MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY!"

the house ate the children again

What's the big idea of a preschooler's play structure within close proximity of a ghastly ruin of an old girls school? that's beyond me!

if i was in that playground when i was in preschool, i would have climbed over the fence and looked around the building...

would this place not have been awsome to kept in shape and used for historic purposes? Its a shame its in such a distructive state. As for the playground being close by, I just bet tons of spooky storys get told....

I would not be able to contain myself. id head right over to it. and everyone would know when i got in it cause the whole damn thing would be collapsing.

What a great place to search, must be really eerie at night and that's all the better. I would love to start searching abandoned buildings again.

What wuz the Sooperintendant thinking of putting a preschoo; near this Haunted old girls school! It is very nitemairish 2 the hilt!

i LOVE playgrounds, even ones for little kids, if that was near my house, id never go to another playground again. that is a creepy view.

it also makes me wonder about the children who played there, what if they managed to get out and wander over there? very dangerous

That is such a contrasting shot. The plastic playground versus the stone building. I like it a lot.

Yes...it reminds my of Rose Red, BUT reminds me MORE of 'THE SHINING'...The huge hotel with the playground~& the shrubbery chases the boy from the playground (trying to eat him) & he barily escapes & makes it back to the Hotel's doorway...Remember??? =D Stephen King & Motts Both RULE!!! LOL

Views of things like that building during childhood create people like Giger and Burton. I should know I've lived down the block from this: http://www.forgotten-n...n/hospitalruin.html my whole life.

"I dare you...."
OK here's the deal if you REALLY want to be in Mott's club you have to spend the night at the school.... and surrvive.
Anyone up for a horror movie.

Here's something odd. The playgrounds that the children play on, on some of the Army bases look very preety much like this playground.

Way too much plastic if you ask me !

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

Man, my folks would never of taken me there as a kid, i was right into old spooky stuff and ghost n stuff from a young age, I wouldve taken off to check the building out!

Okay kids, I want you to go in that building and look for a ghost. You can't come back until you bring a ghost in for show and tell. Ten kids walked in, none came out.

To be continued...

i would hate to play there.

thats just cruel

Not only did I go to nursery school here... i now work here!!!!!!!

we use to take walks when I was a kid and it didnt look this bad...
now I take a walk .. and dum da dum dum dummmmm..... the entities follow me!!!!!!!

*I think one is my guardian angel though!

if you myspace bennett college you can look at the video!!!!

lol.. this is what teacher's do when the kids go home!

looks like a scene from a horror movie

Thought I commented this once already...

But I still really love this shot. =D Modern Happiness meets the degraded past.

a girl hung herself there in the school

what an amazing building, really beautiful especially when covered in foliage

Past meets Present


I seem to be..rememberinggg.. ah, - TERMITES!!

LOL. They have a playground in front of the medical/surgical building in KPPC, too. XD

Bet this building is kept up. They have the reminder of what can happen across the way.
Maybe the savior of abandoned buildings went to that preschool.

Illbet playing there lead to a very health imagination and great sense of humor

That would be a sick view everyday. Screw day care im going exploring

Nightmares? I'd have daydreams! I'd probably be the little girl stuck on the chain fence during recess, grabbing at the metal with chubby fingers with a far-off look in my eyes. Maybe attempt to climb over said fence once in a while.

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 !!!

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

You know I used to deliver newspapers to the condos that were built in the back and every time I went buy I always said " how beautiful but how sad " the ruler I was told is that the owners couldn't afford the renies so it went and the town of millbrook said the would purchase the building but the family said no so the family sub divided the property off and sold to the condos for development and a few of the old staff houses which are beautiful old Victorian homes I just wish I could contact the owners and get the money together and no matter how much or how long it takes we bring this building back to life and no longer let it crumble Into the earth

it does have a creepy effect to.;

only bad progress in Millbrook

I think it would have given me nightmares as well.

Can you imagine going to an all girl school? All the screaching, and giggling! I'm a teenage girl, and we do that a lot!!

Hey RJ, I'll bet there were alot of things that happend in that school that no one will ever know!!

It's sad, because as a kid i really would have loved to have such a gorgeous structure.
I always wanted the old abandoned Victorian style house down the road, while all the other kids were admiring the newest columned buildings..

I see these toys on the way to school. I see them on the way home from school, also.

i've lived around bennett for most of my life. i distinctly remember on my first day of kindergarten i didnt know where to get off the bus so i rode all the way to the bus garage. on my way there we passed bennett and i was scared out of my mind. years later i thought it was just a dream. so, yes, i was one of those lucky kids who is growing up by it (im still a kid at 14 right?)

so, now i live within walking distance of bennett and i've always wanted to explore it, but i hear theyre tearing it down :( its such a shame.

If only I didn't live in Texas, I would go here...but I know by the time I'll be able to go up, it'll be gone... :(

If I had that view everyday, I may of just wondered off to go look. Well that's just me. Abandoned places interest me greatly.

Talk about EXTREME juxtapostion! : )

That playground is part of a building owned by Cardinal Hayes Home for Children. It was once a nursery school, then part of the Cardinal Hayes School, and now belongs to the work program for Cardinal Hayes. The college is interesting to look at while we work, and it's impossible to go in there now to explore because some kids were caught trying to set it on fire. Now we see patrol cars there constantly.

I went to Bennet Nursery School in the late 70's before it was moved from the top of the hill to this location. It was a wonderful place. I remember when they moved it. No the kids aren't scared of the place, when you live there and see it every day it is not scary but sad and beautiful.

I'll play with those toys.

Mommy, please don't make me go there anymore, I keep hearing voices calling me, they want me to go into that creepy place next door and stay with them!

Hush up child, it's ALL IN YOUR HEAD!!!!!!!!!

(We know better, Muh huh huh huh)

It's as if Joe Bukater's estate "Meadow mere" overlooks an empty play lot.

Hello I am going here and would like to know how to get in, where to park, where to get in without getting arrested. I am a photographer and my intentions are purely for preservation. I can be reached at gothamwebdeisng@gmail.com . Thanks so much :) !

sorry posted wrong email its gothamwebdesign@gmail.com

Bob, you may want to rethink that. These photos were taken in 2004. There are web sites with more recent pics and the building has deteriorated greatly. Opacity does not give out information on how to enter these facilities for legal reasons. That being said, if you still choose to explore this campus, be careful & God's speed.

i am there every year and believe U me it's not that safe any more- look up Kyle's responce on last pic of this gallery and now even worse

I find it beautiful and mysterious... a little creepy but not enough to trigger nightmares. If I was a child looking at this on the daily, I'd more than likely be intrigued rather than frightened. I grew up curious and still am curious about these places... being a medium and all, I find these places to be attractive for me, "interested" doesn't begin to cover how I view abandoned places :)

In no way does the profile give off a spooky, Gothic vibe!

It's an absolutely enchanting structure that beckons the world weary traveler.

Thanks for preserving the memories and documentation.

I wish I went to theis per school