Tag Archives: Millbrook

Dutchess Poorhouse, Millbrook, NY

These buildings are located on Oak Summit Road near the Village of Millbrook.  As mentioned in a Poughkeepsie Journal article, “Originally, the Dutchess County Poorhouse, the campus opened in 1864 and housed people with mental illness and physical disabilities, and the most destitute.”  In 2014, it was planned that six of the buildings would be razed, two would remain (west and north wings), and a potter’s field (cemetery of hundreds of unidentified people) would remain.  The east wing had previously been demolished.  In 2008 Dutchess County rehabilitated the property’s 1960 north wing into what is now the Eastern Dutchess Government Center.  Also present on the property is an 1864 farmhouse, now in disrepair.

More information:  Historic Resource Survey; Poughkeepsie Journal article about demolition

Location: Google Maps (41.763698, -73.699964)

Bennett School for Girls, Millbrook, NY

Halcyon Hall is the main building on the Bennett School for Girls property, and the one that is photographed here.  The building was originally a hotel, built in 1890.  In 1907, the Bennett School For Girls occupied the building until it closed in 1978.  The building has remained vacant ever since.

Map: Location on Bing Maps Bird’s Eye view