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George Vanderbilt opened his opulent estate, on Christmas Eve of 1895, to family and friends from across the country who were encouraged to enjoy leisure and country pursuits. The Gilded Age mansion reportedly cost $ 5 million (equivalent to about $ 183 million today) to construct. Guests to the
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Construction of the house began in 1889. In order to facilitate such a large project, a woodworking factory and brick kiln, which produced 32,000 bricks a day, were built onsite. A 3-mile (5 km) railroad spur was constructed to bring materials to the building site. Construction on the main house
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The third floor has a number of guest rooms with names that describe the furnishing or artist that they were decorated with. The fourth floor has 21 bedrooms that were inhabited by housemaids, laundresses, and other female servants. Also included on the fourth floor is an Observatory with a circular
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The basement level featured activity rooms, including an indoor, 70,000 U.S. gallons (260,000 L; 58,000 imp gal) heated swimming pool with underwater lighting, a bowling alley, and a gymnasium with once state-of-the-art fitness equipment. The service hub of the house is also found in
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table (table without pockets). The room was mainly frequented by men, but ladies were welcome to enter as well. Secret door panels on either side of the fireplace led to the private quarters of the Bachelors' Wing where female guests and staff members were not allowed. The wing includes the Smoking
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Vanderbilt's idea was to replicate the working estates of Europe. He asked Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted to design a village with architecturally compatible buildings and picturesque landscaping. He intended it to be a source of income through rental cottages, a place to help carry
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and the Lagoon. Each was used for guest recreation such as fishing and rowing. To supply water for the estate, Olmsted engineered two reservoirs. One was a spring-fed man-made lake on nearby Busbee Mountain. The other was a man-made, brick-lined reservoir, located behind the statue of Diana in the
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The principal rooms of the house are located on the ground floor. To the right of the marbled Entrance Hall, the octagonal sunken Winter Garden is surrounded by stone archways with a ceiling of architecturally sculptured wood and multifaceted glass. The centerpiece is a marble and bronze fountain
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to design the grounds. Olmsted was not impressed with the condition of the 125,000 acres (195 sq mi; 510 km) and advised having a park surround the house, establishing farms along the river, and replanting the rest as a commercial timber forest, a plan to which Vanderbilt agreed.
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Grand Staircase of 107 steps spiraling around a four-story, wrought-iron chandelier holding 72 light bulbs. The second-floor Living Hall is an extension of the grand staircase as a formal hall and portrait gallery, and was restored to its original configuration in 2013. Several large-scale
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The rear western elevation is less elaborate than the front facade, with some windows not having any decoration at all. Two matching polygonal towers in the center are connected to the polygonal south turret by an open loggia that opens the main rooms of the house to the views of the
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in Washington, D.C., to protect them in the event of an attack on the United States. The Music Room on the first floor was never finished, so it was used for storage until 1944, when the possibility of an attack became more remote. Among the works stored were the
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the largest basement in the country. It holds the main kitchen, pastry kitchen, rotisserie kitchen, walk-in refrigerators that provided an early form of mechanical refrigeration, the servants' dining hall, laundry rooms, and additional bedrooms for staff.
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was installed at the junctions to prevent water from penetrating. The fanciful flashing on the ridge of the roof was embossed with George Vanderbilt's initials and motifs from his family crest, though the original gold leaf no longer survives.
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required the labor of about 1,000 workers and 60 stonemasons. Vanderbilt made extensive trips overseas during construction to purchase decor. He returned to North Carolina with thousands of furnishings for his newly built home, including
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staircase that leads to a wrought iron balcony with doorways to the rooftop where Vanderbilt could view his estate. Male servants were not housed here, however, but instead resided in rooms above the stable and complex.
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Room, the most grand, so named due to its architectural scheme and furnishings that were very popular in the late nineteenth century. The suite was restored and opened to the public for the first time in 100 years in
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Biltmore has 4 acres (1.6 ha) of floor space and 250 rooms in the house, including 35 bedrooms for family and guests, 43 bathrooms, 65 fireplaces, three kitchens and 19th-century novelties such as an electric
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and the expensive maintenance of the estate, Vanderbilt initiated the sale of 87,000 acres (350 km) to the federal government. After Vanderbilt's unexpected death in 1914, of complications from an emergency
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The steeply pitched roof is punctuated by sixteen chimneys and covered with slate tiles that were affixed one by one. Each tile was drilled at the corners and wired onto the attic's steel infrastructure. Copper
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Popular figures who have visited the Biltmore Estate include: Robert Redford, Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Robert Downey, Jr., Jimmy Carter, Bill and Melinda Gates, Walter Cronkite, and Anthony Hopkins.
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Intending the estate to be self-supporting, Vanderbilt set up scientific forestry programs, poultry farms, cattle farms, hog farms, and dairy. His wife, Edith, also enthusiastically supported
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After the Cecils divorced in 1934, Cornelia left the estate, never to return, but John Cecil maintained his residence in the Bachelors' Wing until his death in 1954. Their eldest son,
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Since the death of William A. V. Cecil in October 2017 and his wife Mimi Cecil in November, their daughter Dini Pickering has served as board chair and their son Bill Cecil as
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William Cecil inherited the estate upon the death of their mother, Cornelia, in 1976. His brother, George, inherited the more profitable dairy farm, which was spun off as
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out philanthropic programs, and an easy point of access between the estate and the train station. The result was Biltmore Village. The village was mostly designed by
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To the left of the entrance hall is the 90-foot (27 m) long Tapestry Gallery, which leads to the Library, featuring three 16th-century tapestries representing
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is attached to the house and is accessed from the library, which is located on the ground floor. On the north end of the house, Hunt placed the attached stables,
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in 1921. She intermittently occupied the house, living in an apartment created in the former Bachelors' Wing, until the marriage of her daughter Cornelia to
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was filmed at Biltmore House in January 2023, and was first aired the following November. It was the first movie in which the setting was Biltmore House.
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Water was an important aspect of Victorian landscaping, and Olmsted incorporated two elements for the estate: the Bass Pond created from an old creek-fed
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The Billiard Room is decorated with an ornamental plaster ceiling and rich oak paneling and was equipped with both a custom-made pool table and a
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masterpieces are displayed in the hall, including two John Singer Sargent portraits of Biltmore's architect, Richard Morris Hunt, and landscaper,
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Room, which was fashionable for country houses, and the Gun Room, which held mounted trophies and displayed George Vanderbilt's gun collection.
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and its courtyard to protect the house and gardens from the wind. The 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m) complex housed Vanderbilt's prized
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The south facade is the house's smallest and is dominated by three large dormers on the east side and a polygonal turret on the west. An
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Another important aspect of the landscaping was the intentionally rustic four-mile (5  km) Approach track that began at the brick
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and a triple fireplace that spans one end of the hall. On the opposite end of the hall is an organ gallery that houses a 1916
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The estate has been used on numerous occasions as a filming location for movies and television shows. These have included
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were hired to manage the forests, with Schenck establishing the first forestry education program in the U.S. in 1898, the
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horses. The carriage house opposite the stables stored his twenty carriages in addition to any of his guests' carriages.
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and promoted the establishment of a state agricultural fair. In 1901, the Vanderbilts provided financial assistance to
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in 1963, and remains a major tourist attraction in western North Carolina, with around 1.4 million visitors each year.
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in April 1924. The Cecils had two sons, who were born at Biltmore in the same room where their mother was born.
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The estate today covers approximately 8,000 acres (13 sq mi; 32 km) and is split in half by the
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In the conservatory, which has many flowers and trees growing in it, there is also an elevated model railway.
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from "Bildt," the Dutch town from which the family took its name, and "more," an obsolete English word for
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in the area, which he called his "little mountain escape". His older brothers and sisters had built
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system. Biltmore House had electricity from the time it was built, though initially it received
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châteaux as inspiration. Vanderbilt and Hunt had visited several in early 1889, including
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and arch system was used extensively inside and outside of Biltmore, and was patented by
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Vanderbilt envisioned a park-like setting for his home and employed landscape architect
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detailing of the room is enhanced by the rich walnut paneling and the ceiling painting,
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Vista, at an elevation of approximately 266 ft (81 m) above the Esplanade.
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began to make regular visits with his mother, Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt, to the
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The Biltmore Estate is the setting for Robert Beatty's historical fiction fantasy
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The second-floor balcony is accessed by an ornate walnut spiral staircase. The
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base is a contrast to the smooth limestone used on the remainder of the house.
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to the right, which holds the Winter Garden that was fashionable during the
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area. He loved the scenery and climate so much that he decided to build a
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the Claude Room, named after one of Vanderbilt's favorite artists,
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ceiling. The table can seat 64 guests and is surrounded by rare
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at Biltmore on the fourth floor. The carved decorations include
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is the most important work by the artist still in existence.
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with individual rooms for palms and roses. There was also a
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was a principal source of inspiration for the east elevation
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carved oak paneled sitting room with an intricate ceiling.
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In an attempt to bolster the estate's finances during the
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in the distance. The loggia is decorated overhead with
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Vanderbilt commissioned prominent New York architect
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and ended at the sphinx-topped stone pillars at the
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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