Melancholy of Halcyon Hall - The Abandoned School for Girls

Before we begin, we would like to give a huge ’thank you’ to the numerous alumni of the Bennett School who shared with us their stories and yearbook photos. In time there will be much more to come from us regarding Halcyon Hall, but for now, we hope this video does some justice to the old place. Rested upon its knoll, as it has for well over a century now, Halcyon Hall is equal parts elegance and frailty. Composed of wood and stone, intricate carvings, cracked and broken, still adorn corners and peaks which stand in various stages of collapse. The long pronounced lines of its architecture have become discolored and bowed, a majority of the porch has caved in from years of rain and snow, and the old courtyard has overgrown into a small forest. To view the crumbling facade from the nearby roadway is to be immediately struck with a sense of awe, as well as a melancholy pining to have known in better times. A building that breaks one’s heart to simply gaze upon it. Opened in 1890 as a re