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Halcyon Hall, Millbrook, New York

In 1890, Halcyon Hall was built to operate as a luxury hotel. It had two hundred rooms and five stories. But the hotel was not as popular as predicted. So, it was closed down in 1901. A few years later, a teacher from New York decided to use the big Halcyon Hall as a school for girls. It became Bennet Collage after more buildings were added.

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The Bennet College found it hard to survive after the arrival of more colleges. Eventually, Bennet College was so much into debt that it went bankrupt. It was abandoned in 1977. In 2014, the building was demolished despite being on the list of the National Register for Historic Places.