MILLBROOK – The former Bennett College in Millbrook shut its doors in 1978 and the Thorne Building in the village, was a public school from 1893 to 1960.
There are now plans in the works to combine the two into one project, noted spokesman Charles Pierce.
“If we joined the Thorne Building project with a part to transform the Bennett property into a public park, for the benefit of anyone who came to the village or the Town of Washington or anywhere else, that has been the concern for the last year or so,” he said.
The new 32-acre Bennett Park project calls for renovation and restoration of the Thorne Building and the safe demolition of the old college buildings and re-fashioning the campus into a green gateway to the village with landscaped parks, and walking and biking trails.
The collaborative effort by the Millbrook Community Partnership is in the process of raising the $20 million budgeted to complete both projects.
