TAKEN FROM: Frank Hasbrouck’s The History of Dutchess County, New York
Page 485:
Early in 1893 Halcyon Hall was built as a summer hotel by
H. J. Davison, Jr., and his wife Marie Weed Alden, a granddaughter of Thurlow Weed. This
beautiful building, complete in all its appointments, was used as a summer
hotel for eight years, but not succeeding as a financial proposition, it stood
vacant until 1907, when the property was purchased by Miss May F. Bennett, who
has remodeled its interior and moved into it her school for girls. This school was founded at
The school has an executive staff of sixteen and the
faculty numbers twenty-one. It offers
thorough physical as well as mental training carefully adapted to the
individual, and seeks to inculcate high ethical ideals, a sense of personal
responsibility and love of truth.
The course of study covers a period of six years, the first
four corresponding to the ordinary high school course, no student being
admitted to the two higher classes who is not a graduate from a good
preparatory school. One-third of those
who enter the school are in this course, which offers unusually fine
opportunities for the study of music, art, literature, history, economics,
ethics, domestic arts and sciences. This
fine school adds much to the life and pleasure of the community in many ways
and promises to become more and more a real, a vital part of our historic
development.”
This book can be found at the Millbrook Free Library,