Route 17B and Puckyhuddle Rd., October 21, 2001. Photo by Tom Rue.
Sunday, October 21, 2001

BETHEL - According to a post by Bethel Town Clerk Rita Simpson Sheehan, this circa 1900 "wash house", often misidentified as a turnpike tollhouse (which it was not), was once part of the Halsey Hotel across Route 17B by Perry Road not far from Bethel Woods. Finally, on Easter Sunday 2024, after years of neglect and much commentary on local social media over when the "leaning house" would fall, it did.

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