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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 ...
Biltmore Estate: Asheville, North Carolina: George Washington Vanderbilt II: The Biltmore Company [3] 1895: Châteauesque: Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted: 2: 109,000 sq ft (10,100 m 2) [4] Oheka Castle: West Hills, New York: Otto Hermann Kahn: Gary Melius [5] 1919: Châteauesque: Delano and Aldrich: 3 105,000 sq ft (9,800 m 2 ...
The Biltmore Estate in Ashville, North Carolina. The Biltmore Estate, America's largest mansion, was commissioned by George Vanderbilt in 1889. It required six years and the skilled hands of local ...
Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina. From the late 1870s to the 1920s, the Vanderbilt family employed some of the best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators in the United States to build a notable string of townhouses in New York City and palaces on the East Coast of the United States. Many of the Vanderbilt houses are now National Historic ...
When the estate has announced its reopening, they can call 800-411-3812 to reserve a date or time in advance or exchange their ticket in-person at the estate's Reception and Ticketing Sales Center ...
This English Tudor-style mansion in the town of Biltmore Forest sold for an all-time Asheville-area record price on Monday, March 6, 2023, according to Premier Sotheby’s International Realty.
25 North Carolina. 26 Nebraska. 27 Ohio. 28 Oregon. 29 Pennsylvania. ... Built for George Washington Vanderbilt II, it is the largest house in the U.S. [98] Alexander ...
Living in one or another of his family residences well into adulthood, Vanderbilt decided to construct his own country mansion and estate in 1888. For this purpose, he acquired 125,000 acres of woodland in North Carolina, employing the architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a limestone house modeled on the Chateau de Blois and other chateaux ...