Biltmore Estate

Biltmore Estate is a large private estate and tourist attraction in  Asheville,  North Carolina. Biltmore House, the main house on the estate, is a  Châteauesque-styled mansion built by  George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the  largest privately owned house in the  United States, at 178,926 square feet (16,622.8 m 2 ) [2]  and featuring 250 rooms. Still owned by one of Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today as one of the most prominent remaining examples of the  Gilded Age, and of significant gardens in the  jardin à la française and  English Landscape garden styles in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked eighth in America's Favorite Architecture by the  American Institute of Architects<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">.

History
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">In the 1880s, at the height of the  Gilded Age<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">,  George Washington Vanderbilt<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, youngest son of  William Henry Vanderbilt<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, began to make regular visits with his mother,  Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> (1821–1896), to the  Asheville, North Carolina<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, area. He loved the scenery and climate so much that he decided to create his own summer estate in the area, which he called his "little mountain escape," just as his older brothers and sisters had built  opulent summer houses<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> in places such as  Newport<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">,  Rhode Island<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, and  Hyde Park<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">,  New York<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">.

Architecture
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