The history of the Salesian School begins with a man named David Haight, who first built the mansion on the property around 1834-1864. When he passed away in 1876, he was buried in the nearby Haight Mausoleum, which was built for his family in 1872. The property eventually foreclosed in 1922 and in 1925 the Salesian Fathers purchased the property for approximately $61,000 and opened it as a Catholic resident school for boys. The mansion served as an administration building, and the main schoolhouse was constructed in 1931. On the night of August 9th, 1964, a nine year old boy named Paul, fell to his death after falling 36 feet off the roof. The coroner's observation was that the distance from the boy's body to the wall seems too far to suggest he had simply fallen off the roof, but disputes over the time of death, uncooperative staff, and student records being lost in a fire, have all been complications in finding the cause of the boy's death. After news spread, the school's enrollment declined, and it was closed in the fall of 1985, although nothing points to the boy's death being the direct cause. The school operated as a youth center afterward, until the campus closed in 1991 when the order sold the property. The mansion has since been condemned after a collapse on one side. (re:nyhauntings.blogspot.com)