Alicia GA
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Biltmore Estate - Ashville, NC
I remember touring this castle and gardens as a girl, in the springtime with lots of blooming. When I was older, I only toured the vineyard - the castle admission price was too much for me.
From Wikipedia:
Biltmore House is a French Renaissance-inspired chateau near Asheville, North Carolina, built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1888 and 1895. It is the largest privately-owned home in the United States, at 175,000 square feet. Still owned by Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today as one of the finest examples of the Gilded Age.
Intending that the estate could be self-supporting, Vanderbilt set up scientific forestry programs, poultry farms, cattle farms, hog farms and a dairy. The estate included its own village (today Biltmore Village) and even a church.
Vanderbilt paid little attention to the family business or his own investments, and the construction and upkeep of Biltmore depleted much of his inheritance. After Vanderbilt died of complications from an emergency appendectomy in 1914, his widow, Edith Dresser Vanderbilt, finalized the sale of much of the original 125,000 acres (506 km²) to the federal government (begun by Vanderbilt before his death), which became the nucleus of Pisgah National Forest. The estate today covers approximately 8,000 acres .
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2/17/2007, 12:46
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Re: Biltmore Estate - Ashville, NC
Wow that is beautiful!!!! What an awesome opportunity you had!
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2/22/2007, 21:22
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Re: Biltmore Estate - Ashville, NC
Wow, gorgeous.
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2/23/2007, 15:42
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