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George Vanderbilt was drawn to Asheville, N.C., by the Blue Ridge Mountains and took five years to build his estate, originally encompassing 125,000 acres.
Biltmore marks the summit of two famous careers: that of architect Richard Morris Hunt, designer of many of New York’s chateaus; and Frederick Law Olmstead, landscape architect of Central Park.
The house contained the latest advances of 1890-95: electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, walk-in refrigeration, elevators.
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