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Bear Mountain - Storm King Highway
Scenic winding road through the Hudson Valley that has been a favorite Sunday driving destination for NYC car enthusiasts since the 1920s.
21 km · about 25 min drive
New York, United States · North America
Beacon is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Balmville, 21km from Bear Mountain - Storm King Highway.
Beacon is a town located in New York, United States. With a population of 14,347, it is an important destination in North America.
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The U.S. Post Office in Beacon, New York, is located on Main Street (New York State Route 52 Business). It serves the ZIP Code 12508, covering the entire city of Beacon and some of the neighboring areas of the Town of Fishkill. It is a stone structure in the Dutch Colonial Revival architectural style built in theRead more
mid-1930s. In 1988 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with many other older post offices in the state.
While its style was not uncommon for post offices of the era, its fieldstone exterior is. Only a few other New Deal post offices in the state, most of them in Dutchess County towns along the Hudson River, used it. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's preferred that new post offices in his native region echo the architectural preferences of his Dutch ancestors who had been among the earliest settlers of the Hudson Valley, and the success of the Beacon post office may have encouraged him in that respect.
It was also the only federal building in New York designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, who lived in Idaho and primarily worked on buildings in the national parks of the West, closer to his home. Inside the building, Charles Rosen painted a map of the Hudson Valley on the lobby walls, in addition to some murals depicting historic events in the area. Both interior and exterior remain largely as originally constructed.
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Beacon is located in New York, United States, North America. The coordinates are 41.5048 latitude, -73.9696 longitude.
Beacon has a population of approximately 14,347 people, making it a town in United States.
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Scenic winding road through the Hudson Valley that has been a favorite Sunday driving destination for NYC car enthusiasts since the 1920s.
21 km · about 25 min drive
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