Three levels of sunlit galleries trace the history of the maritime industries here, and highlight works of 19C and 20C artists such as Winslow Homer and Fitz Hugh Lane, who were drawn to Cape Ann's light and landscape.

Overlooking Gloucester Harbor and the distant Boston skyline, this 40-room summer residence of architect-decorator Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934) contains an imaginative mix of period styles and décors. Sleeper wished to create a different mood and ..

The North Shore Arts Association is located among East Main Street's restaurants and art galleries. The association features the work of local artists. Nearby, jutting out into the water, Rocky Neck has harbored an artists' colony since the 19C.

Inspired by castles built in the Middle Ages, this stone castle was completed in 1929 by the eccentric inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr. On one side, twin towers rise 80ft above terraced gardens, a drawbridge and an enclosed exercise yard that Hammond ..