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Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft ...
Richard Sharp Smith (July 7, 1853 – February 8, 1924) was an English-born American architect, noted for his association with George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate and Asheville, North Carolina. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Smith worked for some of America's important architectural firms of the late 19th century— Richard Morris Hunt , Bradford Lee Gilbert ...
The William K. Vanderbilt House or the Petit Chateau in 1886, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of architecture of the United States.
Biltmore House on Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, by Richard Morris Hunt is opened. Refuge Assurance Building in Manchester, England, by Alfred Waterhouse, is opened. Bishopsgate Institute in London, England, by Charles Harrison Townsend, is opened.
The Biltmore Mound is a platform mound which was originally 2 meters tall and 30 meters in diameter. There are 62 postholes on the mound, [ 1 ] where ritual posts were once placed. [ 2 ] These posts were removed and the holes were filled with sediment before the mound was abandoned. [ 3 ]
The district encompasses 14 contributing residential buildings in Biltmore Village. They were designed by Richard Sharp Smith and built about 1900 for George W. Vanderbilt . The dwellings are 1 1/2- to two-story, pebbledash finished half-timbered cottages with recessed porches, multiple gables, steeply pitched roofs, simple molded trim, one or ...
East doors and tympanum (1891), Trinity Church, New York Joan of Arc (1895), Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.Note Bitter's portrait medallions on the spandrels above the arches, his caryatids at left, and the limestone blocks above the paired columns for his unexecuted sculpture groups.
Biltmore Estate Office is a historic office building located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt and built in 1896. It is a 1 1/2-story pebbledash finished building with a hipped roof, half-timbering, brick trim, and chamfered and bracketed porch posts.