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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 ...
The Homestead Museum also includes "La Casa Nueva" – a spectacular example of Spanish Colonial Revival style, built by the Temple family between 1922 and 1927.The family's own design was drawn up by the well-known Los Angeles architectural firm of Walker and Eisen, although in 1924, Beverly Hills-based architect Roy Selden Price was hired to reconfigure the design.
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 ...
• Documentary: View the Biltmore’s 10-minute documentary on YouTube or Facebook called “Behind the Magic” to get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into decorating the mansion and the ...
One of Western North Carolina’s most popular tourist attractions and historic sites, Biltmore, has closed its doors to assess damage to the property from Tropical Storm Helene. Biltmore has not ...
The Biltmore home is located about 2,000 feet east of the French Broad River, which flooded to a record of over 24 feet in some areas affected by Helene. The river is roughly 1,985 feet about sea ...
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 ...
Biltmore Forest, North Carolina, a town in Buncombe County; Biltmore Village, a village now within Asheville; The Biltmore Estate, in Biltmore Forest, near Asheville The Biltmore Company, owner of the above estate; Biltmore Farms, dairy farm and real estate company split off from the above estate; Biltmore Forest School, on the above estate