Beacon has an artsy reputation with dozens of art and clothing stores, as well as public art and historic architecture.
Most of the opulent buildings by Gilded Age architect Richard Morris Hunt were destroyed, but a handful remain in New York City and Newport.
Here are ten gorgeous Beaux-Arts buildings in New York City that every architecture fan should see at least once in their life.
Learn more about the two dozen Vanderbilt homes in New York that once pulled in the most affluent and famous of guests.
Almost no one notices the Metropolitan Museum of Art's most curious design feature: the four piles of uncut, unfinished stone blocks atop the museum’s entrance.