Antique Art Noveau Photo Album Etc Miss Bennett's School f Young Women N.Y. 1908

Description: Photo Album Early20th Century Miss Bennett’s College Millbrook, New York / 1908A 1908 collection of the now demolished Bennett College, also known as Bennett School for Girls and The Bennett School of Liberal and Applied Arts. Miss Bennet’s School was a women's college founded in 1890, in Millbrook, NY. by May Friend Bennett (1863-1924). “Bennett College was founded in 1890 at Irvington, New York by May F. Bennett as the Bennett School for Girls, a four-year high school with two extra years of study. In 1907 the college moved to its final home on 22 acres (89,000 m2) in Millbrook, Duchess County, New York, which was originally built as a hotel. The hotel failed to catch on. In 1907 the school had an enrollment of 120 students and a faculty of 29. It became a junior college in circa 1935. At the time of its closing, enrollment was around 300 students. The college closed in 1978 after entering bankruptcy.”(Wikipedia) The main building, Halcyon Hall, was built as a hotel (see above) in 1893 by H.J. Davison Jr., a publisher from New York. The 200-room Queen Anne structure had five stories, a basement and sub-basement, and as of 2020 was in very poor condition: rooms and floors have collapsed, decay was everywhere. Photos of the building in disrepair and prior to demolition may be found on the Facebook page Hidden Hudson Valley (New York)The collection includes:1. The black 10 x 13 inch photo album with 20 pages of silver gelatin tone black and white photographs measuring in various sizes 3 x 5”, 3 x 4”, 2 x 3” mounted on stiff black paper of women students enjoying various friend activities plus planned school activities and portraits of students. All of the photos are captioned. There are also programs and formal photos from school activities, plays and field days.Condition: Very good with some fading to a few photos -- one family estate condition commensurate with age being 1908, which was the second year of Miss Bennett’s acquisition on the property. The photos are a wonderful collection depicting Miss Bennet’s school life in 1907-08. Very little damage if any to the photos. Please carefully inspect the photos since they are an important part of the description for this collection of Miss Bennett's School for Young Women c. 1908. 2. An alumnae letter dated July, 1935announcing the school’s change from a school of Liberal and Applied Arts to a new designation by the State of New York as a Junior College. SevSeveral silent motion picture and more contemporary actresses, business women, artists, socialites, and authors attended Miss Bennett's School for Girls and Miss Bennett's College in Middlebrook, New York. Nancy Ames (born Nancy Hamilton Alfaro on September 30, 1937) is an American folk singer and songwriter. She regularly appeared on the American version of the television series That Was the Week That Was. The TW3 Girl, as she was known, sang the show theme and special material. Judi Andersen Harrison is an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1978. Andersen was born in Honolulu, and attended Punahou School before Born: October 11, 1958 (age 65), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Education: Punahou School, Bennett College Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames was an American artist and designer who worked in a variety of media. Born: December 15, 1912, Sacramento, California, United StatesSpouse: Charles Eames Carmen Mathews (1911-1995) was an American actress who appeared in films, TV shows and Broadway plays. She starred in Daniel (1983) and M*A*S*H (1972), and ran a summer camp and an educational center. Birth Date: January 1, Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US Mercedes Matter was an American painter, draughtswoman, and writer. She was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, and the Founder and Dean Emeritus of the New York St...Born: 1913, New York City, U.S.Died: December 4, 2001, Long Island, New York, U.S.Spouse: Herbert Matter(m 1939 - 1984) Education: Kansas City Art Institute Mildred Natwick was an American actress. She won a Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. Born: June 19, 1905, Baltimore, Maryland, United States Died: October 25, 1994, Manhattan, New York, United States Parents: Joseph Natwick, Mildred Marion Dawes Natwick - Education: Bennett College Blaine Trump was born Martha Lindley Blaine Beard, and grew up in South Carolina, Florida and Alabama. Her father, Joseph Beard, was a top executive at IBM. Blaine and her family moved to Yokohama due to her father's job when she was ten. There, she attended the International School of the Sacred Heart. She later graduated from the American School of Paris in Louveciennes. She attended Bennett College in Millbrook, New York, and then the University of Tokyo before dropping out to marry Peter Retchin.tTrump is a trustee of the American Ballet Theatre.In 1998, Trump received the Marietta Tree Award for public service from the New York City citizens' committee. Blaine Trump has been married and divorced twice. First she was briefly married to Peter Retchin, with whom she had a child in 1978, Christopher Hollister who is a real estate executive. In 1984 she married Robert Trump, who worked in his property-developer family firm Trump Organization and they were together for 25 years, from 1984 to 2009.In October 2004, Blaine overdosed on pills and was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York after she learned her husband had bought a $3.7 million house on Long Island for his girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan, who was his secretary for many years. They were involved in a lengthy divorce battle. The divorce was filed in 2007, went to court in 2008, and they reached a secret settlement in 2010. In 2012, Blaine Trump put her $17.5 million mansion in Millbrook, New York, up for sale. Betsy Bloomingdale: Grew up on Maple Drive in Beverly Hills, where she attended Marymount and Marlborough schools and then studied art at Bennett College, in Millbrook, New York. Birth Date: January 1, Location: Los Angeles, 90230, CACondition: Toning to the letter printed on light onion skin paper. 3. A bulletin of the Episcopal memorial simple service for Miss Bennett with a cover of a sepia toned photograph of Miss Bennett, short text excerpt from a letter of Miss Bennett and text from The Chastening Act IV.Condition: Toning and corner frayed,a few small tears at the bulletin sides.4. An original set of 15 black andwhite photographs Titled VIEWS Showing Where We Live and Some of the Things wedo at The Bennett School of Liberal and Applied Arts Millbrook, Duchess County,New York. The photographs in the collection: The Dining Hall, A Bedroom in theNew Building, The White House, The Firs Post Graduate House, One of the Verandas, Chorus of Women and Huntsmen in Hippolytus, Entrance Halcycon Hall And Main Gables, Cooking School, Stable of Bennett School Riding Academy, The Library, Harkaway Hall, The New Art Studio, Interior of New Art Studio, Gymnasium.Condition: Very good condition commensurate with the age of the set. There is toning to the cover – the photographs are bright and in excellent condition. Excellent Provenance: In the family by descent - will be provided to purchaser. Of Note: Millbrook Community Partnership to Create New Park at Bennett College Site,Restore Thorne Building as Community CenterMILLBROOK, New York, July 1st, 2021— Capitalizing on a once-in-a-centuryopportunity to reimagine two Village of Millbrook icons, The Millbrook CommunityPartnership, Inc., (MCP), a 501c3 organization, has been established to create a newpark on the former Bennett College property while simultaneously renovating andrestoring the Thorne Building into a community center.“These two facilities will create a vibrant platform for MCP and other local non-profitorganizations to deliver a plentitude of indoor and outdoor, civic and culturalprograms,” Thorne said. “These programs will provide tremendous benefit to allcitizens of our community and also attract young families to central Dutchess County,thereby helping to ensure the health and vitality of our community for generations to come.Now: 2024Bennett ParkThe Gateway to Millbrook “Millbrook Community Partnership has created Bennett Park: a 35-acre green gateway to Millbrook, providing a beautifully landscaped park with walking and biking trails that ultimately will connect directly to the Village. It will honor the history of Bennett College in a new museum and visitor’s center. And it will offer an outdoor venue for a variety of performing arts, educational and civic events. “

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