#50Years Ago This Week: SENGSTACKEN ESTATE NOW A TOWN HALL Excerpt from the Journal News Week of April 10-16, 1967 Photos by Art Gunther Pictured: Supervisor Robert Slocum; Mrs. Lesmond Kane and Mrs. John Lodini STONY POINT GOVERNMENT MOVES TO NEW QUARTERS – Sengstacken Estate Now a Town Hall For over a year the Sengstacken building in Stony Point has been the object of much controversy over its renovation as a town hall. Last week marked the end of the controversy and the beginning of a new atmosphere of quiet charm for the town offices. Chalk white walls, wide hallways, large sunlit rooms and a gracious wooden staircase characterize the two-story Sengstacken building, once a private estate and later used as a school. The ten offices now housed in the $60,000 town hall include a meeting room which will be utilized for town board and other meetings. The much-argued assembly hall addition, which would have added $25,000 to the $20,000 cost of renovation no longer figures in the town hall’s plans. The supervisor’s offices carpeted in pasture green and cinnamon brown, combine the newness throughout the entire building of fluorescent lighting with the older charm of 50 year old architecture, underlining the historic significance of Stony Point. --------------- The HSRC is pleased to be compiling “This Week in Rockland” a weekly feature appearing in the Rockland Review. Check out other events that happened this week in history! On Newsstands everywhere or online at www.rocklandreviewnews.com www.RocklandHistory.org