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Explore our 8,000-acre Blue Ridge Mountain backyard 
and create memories to last a lifetime. Savor 
exceptional dining with the freshest ingredients 
from our fields to our tables. Enjoy outdoor activities 
like hiking, fishing, horseback riding, and much more!

Biltmore House
Gardens & Grounds

The luxurious family home of George and 
Edith Vanderbilt is a marvel of elegance 
and charm, as magnificent today as it 
was more than a century ago. Your self-guided 
house visit spans three floors and the basement. 
You’ll see displays of vintage clothing, 
accessories, art, furniture, and more that 
tell stories and illustrate the lives of 
the Vanderbilt family, their guests, and 
employees.

Biltmore Banquet Hall

Get a close look at original art by 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir and John Singer 
Sargent. Marvel at magnificent 16th century 
tapestries, a Library with 10,000 volumes, 
a Banquet Hall with a 70-foot ceiling, 65 
fireplaces, an indoor pool, and a bowling 
alley. Almost all of the priceless objects 
that you see throughout the house are from 
George and Edith Vanderbilt’s original 
collection.

Your self-guided visit is included in 
estate admission. An in-depth audio guide 
and guided specialty tours are also available 
at additional cost. Learn more

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 m2)
of floor space (135,280 square feet (12,568 m2) 
of living area) 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.


Location
Asheville, North Carolina, United States 

Coordinates
35°32'22.74?N 82°33'3.42?WCoordinates: 35°32'22.74?N 82°33'3.42?W 

Built
1889–95 

Architect
Richard Morris Hunt; Frederick Law Olmsted 

Architectural style
Châteauesque 

Governing body
Private 

NRHP Reference #
66000586[1] 

Added to NRHP
October 15, 1966;
 47 years ago