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Beacon is a city located on the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 13,769.Beacon is part of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, New York–New Jersey–Connecticut–Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area.
Dia Beacon is the museum for the Dia Art Foundation 's collection of art from the 1960s to the present and is one of the 12 locations and sites they manage. The museum, which opened in 2003, is situated near the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York. Dia Beacon's facility, the Riggio Galleries, is a former Nabisco box-printing facility ...
Madam Brett Homestead. The Madam Brett Homestead is an early 18th-century home located in the city of Beacon, New York, United States. It is the oldest standing building in southern Dutchess County and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1976. It is also listed on the NYS Independence Trail.
1982. The Mount Beacon Incline Railway was a narrow gauge incline railway up Beacon Mountain near Beacon, New York. A popular local tourist attraction, it operated for much of the 20th century, providing sweeping views of the Hudson River Valley. Efforts to restore it have been discontinued. The Otis Elevator Company and Mohawk Construction ...
Beacon Mountain, locally Mount Beacon, is the highest peak of Hudson Highlands, located south of City of Beacon, New York, in the Town of Fishkill. Its two summits rise above the Hudson River behind the city and can easily be seen from Newburgh across the river and many other places in the region. The more accessible northern peak, at 1,516 ...
The Lower Main Street Historic District is a historic district comprising the first several blocks of Main Street ( NY 52 Business) in Beacon, east of its intersection with South Street, the end of its concurrency with NY 9D. The southeast end is at Teller Avenue. The District covers about 50 acres (20 ha.) and includes 32 buildings, most of ...
Opened. 1873. Closed. 1985. Location. The Tioronda Bridge once carried South Avenue in Beacon, New York, across Fishkill Creek. Built between 1869 and 1873 by the Ohio Bridge Company, it was demolished by the city in December 2006. [2] The bridge had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, but a decade later had ...
The Reformed Church of Beacon, originally the Reformed Dutch Church of Fishkill Landing, is a historic and architecturally-significant church in Beacon, New York. The congregation, who no longer occupies the building, claims it is the oldest church in Beacon. [2] [3] It is located on NY 9D about 0.5 miles (1 km) south of Beacon's municipal ...