Exploring an Abandoned College for Girls - NY
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Exploring an Abandoned College for Girls in New York
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View historic photographs of this building while in use by going to.... www.opacity.us/...
Eventually this will all be pulled down and video's like this will be the only reminder of its existence. You risked your safety to do this, *thumbs up*
I agree 100% with you...love this video
Oh boy do i have bad news for you :(
You have very good photography skills. Slow panorama, no jerking, no excessive use of zoom and you are thoroughly detailed. Impressive. Thank you for sharing.
I visited there with 27others of Japanese Yoth Goodwlll Mission to North America back in 1961 and today found it is gone forever・・・・
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Another part of history down the toilet ! Such a shame ! Love the coffer ed ceiling and original doors with the round relief in-set ! Thanks !
I noticed the same details as you. and agree with you. I wonder how much reclaimed wooden doors, raised panels etc. could be salvaged here....
silversurfer49 probably none, they've been sitting there for nearly 40 years. Although I wouldn't mind one of those giant dutch doors... nevermind where I'd put it!
Well done. I like the extra info. in the boxes. It looks like you did some research . I enjoyed the trip . Thanks.
+somebodynew1 Thanks for watching!
What a great opportunity to see something that could never be replicated in our day. Thank you for documenting this before demolition. I tried to get into a great cistern built in 1919 in Minnesota. We tried all possible routes but did bring the proper equipment to break in and lost the opp. They demolished it the next week. It was like a mini version of the dwarf halls in LOTR.
When I saw the picture from 1907, I nearly cried. I sad how something once so beautiful has fallen into ruin.
Beautiful. I'm a fellow urban explorer located in FL and I wish such architecture existed where I live. So many stories behind those walls. I've been to some interesting places, but nothing quite like that.
like how you list the facts and you k now the history of the places you go !! love how you placed the old photo 1907 to see how it really was !! great work !!!
Oh I'm so glad you have someone with you. I am always so scared watching urban explorers doing the exploring, especially in dark places, and especially if they are alone. But I love seeing all these abandoned places. They feel so sad. Thank you for sharing your videos.
What makes the videos so great is the time you take to provide research notes. Shows that you have a true appreciation for this and makes the videos very interesting! Great job as usual!
owners,banks,and governments should be accountable to shutdown these properties properly! There is no reason for pipes bursting when the heat is shut off. Somebody should have been held responsible!
The College found itself struggling to survive in the 1970s as the popularity of coeducation steadily grew. A major movement to upgrade the school into a four year college had left the college in financial distress. Went bankrupt in 1977.
I love to rewatch TUC's uploads. No one shoots like him and makes you feel like you were right next to him. thanks for all your hard work, wish I had a friend interested in this so I could see some of these places. Lucky for me I carry 24/7. You have guts going in these places unarmed.
Boy i love this kind of stuff always been fascinated with old abandoned houses. So much history in them. The older the better. Thanks a lot for the videos
Very sad to see a building like this abandoned, sorry I do not understand the English language, use a translator to write, so I am unable to read without knowing why he was abandoned. A very beautiful building should be restored and preserved.
Many thanks for letting us see.
You may be able to translate this page, give it a try. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_College_%28New_York%29 Thank you for watching!
Many thanks for the help Cameraman! Understand better the history of the building. I imagined how beautiful it was and how well served. There is still time to restore it, who knows, I'll cheer, hope it's good for you guys. Best regards!
OBS: I'm watching everything and vibrate too much!
A before and after of that one historic photo you had would have been awesome. Love to watch your explorations! Thanks for sharing.
Excellent work. I follow a lot of urban explorers. The information that you provide about what we're looking at makes it the most valuable. Photos of what the place originally looked like--such as the one from 1907 you included at the end--are invaluable. I also liked the labeling. Otherwise, all of these abandoned places tend to run together.
So sad these places end up in such ruins. The stone/rock arch ways on the porch? were just beautiful. Great job!!
Thank you so much for filming this. I have always wanted to go check this place out for myself but after falling through the floor of the last abandoned house I was in, I've been to scared to do anymore exploring. Glad you could do it for me :)
My favorite part is the auditorium. It's strangely surreal, seeing all those empty, decaying seats. I like the painting of Elizabeth Taylor on the wall as well. Honestly, this place doesn't seem as creepy as it does interesting and beautiful in a decaying kind of way. It's sad people had to dirty it up with ugly graffiti. I'm sure it was gorgeous during its use....
Ever think about camping out in one of these old places? I would love to myself. Awesome exploring adventure, you guys rock!!
What a beauty! Such a shame that it fell into disrepair...but it's still beautiful.
I'm glad you put the info back in your videos. I enjoy learning a little about the place you're exploring. Thank you!
I hit the subscribe button. Though it hurt my soul immensely to see such a wonderful building in such ruin, I also found the deterioration of it spectacularly enchanting. I wanted to be there with you and get the real feel of the surroundings. Thank you for sharing this amazing exploration; that was super fun. I'm excited to watch the rest of your videos. So...Here's to hoping that all of your travels are exciting but safe so that I can enjoy the world's lost beauties with you as you share. :)
I'm surprised how little the building looks like it was ever a "luxury hotel". I expected to see ornate mouldings, French doors, more fireplaces, decorated (taller) ceilings, columns, etc.
@TheUnknownCameraman Cool video. It's great to read the background on this property along with seeing the picture from 1907. I appreciate the time you take in doing the research on all these abandoned properties you shoot. It adds to what you are seeing in the video. It's easier to understand what you're looking at in the video and how a particular place ended up the way it did. Great Job! Thanks for sharing. Thumbs Up.
I always love how you add facts to your video. I'm sure it takes a lot of time to research those, but it's greatly appreciated.
Thank you Mr. Unknown and RUclips!
Whenever I see someone doing tours of old schools I always hope they will find the school gym.Just kinda neat to see where the school had athletic events like basketball and volleyball,any banners on the walls etc
AWESOME, loved the tour & History !
Beautiful stone work. Auditorium in better shape than the rest. Cool building. Great explore. 👍
Oh goodness please wear masks in the future. Breathing masks.
Very sad to see such nice architecture left to rot, looks to be inspired by old German houses and I like the stone work in certain areas too. Has a European feel to it.
Awesome place...mr unknowncameramen , thank you for sharing unbeliveble place....thank you for not shaking video and telling the story behind those ruin place...
Just looking at that building is weird as hell never seen something in such bad condition still standing
Another great job you've done a beautiful state of pure decay at its finest. I love your videos, no unwanted jibber jabber just good video with great detail 🎥
I just came across your channel the other day and subscribed...pretty cool stuff. I keep thinking something is going to jump out while your filming! I guess I watch to many scary movies. :)
wow what a unique place. Good find and great video
Really been enjoying these man! Keep it up!
This is about 7 miles from my home town, I've always wanted to tour the inside, thanks for the vid.
This was an amazing video, I have only recently found your channel and I am so impressed with your explorations and this one impressed me a lot. I love all the background information you put into your videos which helps the viewers get the inside of the places you visit. Keep making these brilliant videos!
Thanks for sharing. Great video. So sad to see such a beautiful building fall down like that.
Thanks for sharing this video....the best part is the picture in b/w of Dame Elizabeth Taylor......Nick Taylor.
Wow that would have been a beautiful building if it wasn't just left to rot :(
This was an outstanding video. I really enjoyed seeing the vintage photograph taken of the main stair case from 1907...it puts it all into perspective. As a suggestion, you should continue to do this in future video's if possible... Once again great job
i got this app on my Phone, Called Abandoned and urban.
It has a picture of this building, But now i'm finally granted an inside look of the building.
Thank you for that.
Oh wow, this is excellent! What a beautiful building, you know other than it completely falling apart, you can see it must have been gorgeous at some point. And love the little info bars that pop up randomly, I love facts about these kinds of things.
Awesome dude! This is one of my favorites! Keep up the great work !Your brave, and you rule!
drove past this place about a year ago and it's still standing. really interesting to see the inside
I LOVE this building! I'm so glad you did this video! Thanks!
Beautiful old Soda Fountain @ 8:12, the two black handled pieces there in the middle is how the "Soda Jerk" as they were called added the soda water to the syrup back in the day... Thanks for the look about the place.
Thanks for going out of your way to film this stuff. :)
I worked for the FDIC at the Consolidated Field Office in South Brunswick, NJ from 1990 to 1995 which handled bank closings and asset foreclosures in New York among four other states. This property would have been sold at sheriff's sale by 1995 for peanuts. Who owns it now? I handled similar historic old 100 yr old hotels, foreclosure/sheriff sale at FDIC for hotels along the NJ shore. I purposely delayed sending two such hotels to sheriff's sale in hopes of locating a buyer, but we were forced to liquidate everything when Bill Clinton ordered our office closed in May 1995. Two grand 100 yr old 100 room old hotels in Spring Lake, NJ, The Shorem and The Warren in excellent condition, were sold for the value of the land and the buildings demolished. An irreplaceable sad loss.
That really sucks. What were build over them?
mcrfan343 The lots were sold at auction and the high bidders subdivided the lots putting 3 to 4 houses on each. There's another old turn of the century hotel in Spring Lake, NJ that was bought at sheriff's sale and restored. It's oceanfront and called The Essex & Sussex. Today it's rooms are now condos. What a shame if this was bulldozed too. Check out this video of it. The Essex & Sussex, Spring Lake NJ
www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/money/2014/05/13/bennett-college-lands-bought/9036929/
"The Millbrook Tribute Garden foundation and Thorndale Farm LLC, as representatives of the wealthy local Thorne family, said the deals were made with seller Bennett Acquisitions LLC in parallel transactions at undisclosed prices. The announcement was made by George Whalen III, a trustee of the foundation, and Oakleigh Thorne."
But the tax roll says that TG Bennett LLC still owns the property. It's also tax assessed for $369k - welcome to NY
www.dutchessny.gov/TaxRollsPDF/countytown/2016/RPwashington17.pdf
use CTRL+F and type 7-9 Bennett Common
It's really a shame that such a beautiful building is in ruins. People and/or governments should take responsibility and see to it that stuff like this doesn't happen. I always get pissed off when I see this because there is *always* someone who can do something about this no matter if it's an old hotel, a castle or just an ordinary home.
i actually thought out loud "Hope he's not alone..." Whew. The stonework alone is worth saving the place. The photo of its splendor is great. i "like" all your videos.
Please go to more abandoned New York locations. Your videos have helped me really well with a book I'm writing.
Sarah McConnaughey What book?
Awesome stuff, I've wanted to check this place out for a while but haven't been able to get a trip together. You're the man!
It's really a shame to see such great architecture dwindle into dilapidation.
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very nice vid,thanks for sharing,i like abandoned places a lot!it's Always an adventure when you check out an abandoned building or mine...grtz from antwerp-belgium
GREAT JOB.....THANKS FOR SHARING...ITS COLLAPSING IN ON ITSELF NOW
Great video man..this should be saved it still looks somewhat useable..ty for sharing sir.
Is the Bennett College for Ladies. In its hay day it was elegant splendor.
what a fantastic old building
Wow! Doesn't look nearly as unstable inside as it did outside. 4:12 Haha, guess not.
Without knowing the building's history, you could place the abandonment between 1953 & 1986 because of the reference to Sugar Smacks cereal & the Embassy Lucky Boy can. "Special Kids" Cereal, for the gifted & handicapped only; no mediocre kids allowed.
Must have been a real eyesore of a school indoors, with that hideous yellow paint everywhere. Love the stone-mortar walls though.
Yellow is a Happy colour😊
Dawn Bird Yellow is the color of dirty teeth & dirty bathrooms.
wish I could find some photos of what it used to look like back when it was open!
I really think this is the best one yet!
Beautiful place I absolutely love the stone work!
if you ever come down to mass you will need to go on the cape and check the north truro air force station its a old radar base left abandond and a great peice of history.
Unbelievable exploration. That just about sums it up!
Great video. Thanks for all the back story info. That turned a good video into a great video. Thanks also for not using that crappy canned music others seem to like attaching to their videos.
I wish that someone with money would step up and restore this building.
Unfortunately this building is one of those that is just beyond repair. The structure is way and I mean way to decayed to even be worth saving. Even as you wrote this comment 6 years ago it would be to hazardous to try.
Not only is it structurally beyond repair, it is full of asbestos and lead based paint. It is a toxic mess.
I'm surprised someone hasn't taken some of those beautiful old doors right off their hinges.
Imagine them repurposed as a dining table. That would be awesome.
Good camera work. I liked reading the history of the place. I am surprised that someone has not salvaged more of the items in there. Maybe when they tear it down?
am i the only one obsessed with the noise their feet make when they walk in these buildings with all the decay on the ground. the crunch noise
When I was a kid in Ohio my friends and I found an old 2 story shack in the woods and we made it our club house for a couple years. Then some homless guy calmed it and eventually it burned down. Turns out it was part of the underground rail road.
that sucks that he burned it
Really dude the "Under Ground Railroad" didnt go to Ohio
ShadowHD yes it did.the ugrr went to canada which is where a slave would be free.www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/urmap.gif
It most definitely did go through Ohio... Don't speak on things you don't know for sure, it'll save you the embarrassment of being proven wrong.
Katie Brooke I know what I'm talking about boo : )
glad you guys take precautions i saw a lot of black mold around there and probably fumes from the lead base paint and all that other stuff to huh thanks for the spooky footage keep up the good work and stay safe
You've covered this place better than anyone has. Exellent video!
Nice video guys, really well done.
A sad story. One can only imagine what the place must have been like when those corridors and bathrooms were filled with tittering schoolgirls.
This building looks like it was an amazing and a beautiful building at one time. thanks for getting some video of it before it collapses completely.
great video. great info. thanks for being so detailed.
do you guys ever experience any paranormal activity when going through all these abandoned sites? the history's are always so long and ancient who knows what couldve went on in some of those places. amazing videos!
The school I attended Sweet Briar is having the same issues. It's all girl and it's enrollment is around 300 and it barely survived almost closing for the same reasons.
dude your videos are awesome, & its nice to not have the music in the background, you have one awesome camera as well....!!!
Cool shit. I love your videos. It's like a window to the past.
This is sad...I went to an all girls college...great times...beautiful building.
Wow! Great find! Awesome!
Great vids guys. Keep em coming....
You wonder why it never caught on as a hotel. It's a beautiful building!
Nice work. Good research.
Amazing video! Love it :)
It would be interesting to see the pictures of past and present put together
Is this the place of the picture that's going around Facebook with the caption "would you spend a night here for a million dollars?"
yeah
yelimxor oh awesome thanks :)
Id spend a week there for ten grand.
it sure is...I saw that
For a million dollars? I'd spend the night there for $100.00
Fantastic, seen a few of your videos, amazing work. Ok, my question here is in viewing your link go to close calls section at bottom, their pics of ruins some years back. In the auditorium scene we see a startling difference, there is no pristine white paneled banner on stage with the Joan Crawford-esque face in black! It's visible all through your vidi from upstairs and down, so we are now to think on how and WHY it was put there since. Both were shot since 78, it's quite surreal. Info?
Awesome Video😄
Did they demolish this yet?
Very Scary😁
Another great video!
I would love to explore the old hospital at old ft Wolter in North Texas. I also want to find some places here in NH to explore.
Bennett School for Girls is a fascinating place to witness nature reclaiming what humans have built. I have no idea what is holding this building up. The center dormer collapsed around 2012. Great set.
It irks me that places like these are left to rot, or worse, demolished. There is no artistry in our modern architecture. I'm a history nerd and a short story writer (I tend to write creepy, but sometimes comedy). These videos of yours really are fodder for inspiration. Thanks, y'all! :)
so beautiful place