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Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina.Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), the main residence, 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 (12,568 m 2 ...
GNIS feature ID. 2405266 [ 2] Website. Official website. Biltmore Forest is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,343 in 2010. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Biltmore Forest is the second-wealthiest town in North Carolina by per capita income at $85,044.
Biltmore Village. Biltmore Village, formerly Best, is a small village that is now entirely in the city limits of Asheville, North Carolina. [1] It is adjacent to the main entrance of the Biltmore Estate, built by George W. Vanderbilt, one of the heirs to the Vanderbilt family fortune. Once known as the town of Best, George Vanderbilt created ...
Biltmore’s spring season runs from March 25 to May 23. Tickets to experience springtime blooms at the Biltmore start at $60 each . See below for ticket packages and prices.
79001671 [1] Added to NRHP. November 15, 1979. Biltmore Village Cottage District is a national historic district located in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. 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 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] It originally served as a substructure wooden buildings used ...
The Pisgah National Forest was established in 1916, one of the first national forests in the eastern United States. The new preserve included approximately 86,700 acres (35,100 ha) that had been part of the Biltmore Estate, but were sold to the federal government in 1914 by Edith Vanderbilt. Some of the forest tracts were among the first ...
Bearwallow Mountain Trail. Bearwallow Mountain Trail, located just east of Asheville in the tiny community of Gerton, offers a roundtrip loop of 2.1 miles, or an “out and back” hike of 1.6 ...