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	USATODAY.com - Biltmore Estate remains main attraction after 75 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Biltmore House first opened to owner George W. Vanderbilt's family and friends in 1895, but it wasn't until 75 years ago that the rest of the world got a chance to see inside the country's largest home.
		On March 15, 1930, John and Cornelia Cecil, Vanderbilt's son-in-law and daughter opened the Biltmore House to the public at the request of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, which was hoping the move would drive tourists to the Depression-affected city.
		Biltmore is second only to the mountain scenery as the top reason visitors come, according to Marla Tambellini, the chamber's director of marketing and public relations.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/hotels/2005-03-21-biltmore-hotel_x.htm (1251 words)

	Biltmore Estate -- Asheville, North Carolina: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		His legacy is the Biltmore Estate, embodying his vision as well as that of architect Richard Morris Hunt, supervising architect Richard Sharp Smith, and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
		The centerpiece is the Biltmore House, a four-story French Renaissance manor designed by Hunt and completed in 1895.
		Said to be the largest private house in the United States, the interior floor area of the 250-room house covers four acres.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/asheville/bil.htm (419 words)

	Biltmore Estate
		Be sure to have an automobile since the drive to the Biltmore House from the entrance gate is three miles.
		Since the house is a self-guided tour, pay the little extra for the audio companion tour as soon as you enter the house.
		The most dramatic view of Biltmore House is en route from the house to the winery.
	www.romanticasheville.com /Biltmore.html (879 words)

	Biltmore Estate at Asheville, North Carolina - Visitor Guide
		Biltmore Estate includes 8, 000 acres of land which, in addition to the Biltmore House and surrounding gardens, includes forest lands that were first managed by Gifford Pinchot, the father of modern forestry in the U.S. and the first Chief of the U.S. forest Service.
		Biltmore's outdoor center is the place to visit to plan a variety of act ivies.
		Today's Christmas at Biltmore begins on November 4 and ends on January I. It has proven to be one of the most popular features of Biltmore, with thousands of visitors coming each year to see the fabulously decorated estate during the daytime and at night.
	www.willowwinds.com /biltmore-estate-guide.htm (1608 words)

	Biltmore Village Inn Luxury Queen Anne Victorian bed and breakfast in Asheville, NC
		The house was among the first in Asheville to be built with running water and a bathroom, the water being pumped from the well by a large windmill.
		Samuel Reed was the first innkeeper the house had—he was listed in the 1904-5 city directory as the owner and proprietor of the Oaks Hotel, a large frame hostelry in the village of Victoria, between the current Biltmore Village and downtown Asheville.
		Turcot opened the house as a seasonal B&B. In 2000, she sold the house to a group that began a restoration; after about a year of work, they sold the house to the current owners, who completed the renovation and opened the Biltmore Village Inn in September, 2001.
	www.biltmorevillageinn.com /history.htm (939 words)

	Anderson Hardwood Floors \| Flooring \| Biltmore For Your Home
		during his or her stay, the horses would be cared for (well cared for!) in the carriage house across a brick courtyard on the north sid of the house.
		While the furniture and woodwork throughout the Biltmore House came from around the globe and across the centuries, much of it shares a common warm richness and deep, lustrous color palette.
		The forests that enfold Biltmore Estate today-as well as the weathered outbuildings that housed the animals and equipment that maintained them-inspired a rustic suite of distressed, rustic engineered planks.
	www.andersonfloors.com /flooring/biltmore.aspx (450 words)

	Chateau in the Carolinas: Visiting Biltmore Estate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Surrounding the house and formal gardens were 125,000 acres which Vanderbilt diligently reforested and laced with carriage and riding trails.
		Twenty-five horses were kept in the stable next to the house and a staff of 15 to 25 grooms were housed in rooms on the second and third floors.
		On horseback, viewing the Biltmore House from a distant trail, it's easy to imagine the clock has spun back a century and you're a Vanderbilt guest returning to a sumptuous meal and a luxurious room.
	equisearch.com /horses_riding_training/travel/eqbiltmore938 (1225 words)

	Biltmore Estate House and Gardens in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina
		George Vanderbilt created Biltmore Estate in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1895 as a retreat for family and friends.
		The Biltmore House is a magnificent 250-room French style chateau filled with priceless art and antiques.
		The splendid Biltmore House is the largest privately owned home in America.
	www.carolinaoutfitters.com /local-info_biltmore.htm (346 words)

	asheville.com news: Biltmore House.
		While many visitors are aware that Biltmore House is surrounded by elaborate home grounds and flower gardens - the Terraces, the Shrub Garden, the colorful four-acre Walled Garden - they are usually pleasantly surprised at the extensive woodlands, meadows, pasturelands, and agriculturally vibrant fields full of crops and livestock which comprise the present-day Estate.
		Michaelmas, Biltmore Estate's Fall Festival that is scheduled from September 28 through October 27, is an ideal time to enjoy the spectacle of fall color in Biltmore's gardens and woodlands.
		Olmsted's dreams for a Biltmore arboretum were never realized, although his legacy has been brought to life through the success of the North Carolina Arboretum, a state-owned and operated facility on the outskirts of Biltmore Estate (off of Highway 191 at the Blue Ridge Parkway).
	www.asheville.com /news/biltmore0602.html (1261 words)

	Spartanburg.com news: Biltmore Christmas
		The Biltmore House is once again decorated in lavish and beautiful period Christmas decorations that are sure to please the eyes and warm the hearts of all visitors to the Biltmore House.
		The 250-room Biltmore House is decked for the holidays with nearly three dozen trees, hundreds of wreaths and thousands of feet of fresh pine garland.
		While Biltmore House is enchanting by the light of day, Candlelight Christmas Evenings give visitors an opportunity to be captivated by flickering candle and firelight reflected in cut-glass ornaments, gilt decorations or perhaps the wondering eyes of a child.
	www.spartanburg.com /news/biltmorechristmas2003.html (948 words)

	The servant's mansion
		At Biltmore, Poupore said, the best-known head housekeeper was Emily King, a widow who came to western North Carolina from England in 1897 and served until at least 1917.
		From the walkway, Vanderbilt and his guests had access to balconies from which he could show off Biltmore House's dramatic rooflines and gargoyles, the copper roofing imprinted with gilded GV monograms, and the Blue Ridge vistas in the distance.
		Although Biltmore House is crammed with Gilded Age opulence, the Observatory hints at a more private George Vanderbilt.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/travel/articles/0814biltmore.html (1223 words)

	BookThink - Denizens of Biltmore
		At Biltmore House, you see the results of his ability to select the best architect, landscape architect, and craftsmen to create a magnificent setting for himself and his guests.
		She became a gracious hostess who focused on both social life at Biltmore House and the betterment of estate workers and nearby residents.
		By the time he left to become Forester in the US Department of Agriculture in 1898, Biltmore forestry was on a solid footing that was continued by his successor Carl A. Schenck, founder of the Biltmore School of Forestry.
	www.bookthink.com /0072/72cast.htm (1185 words)

	Biltmore Estate : About the house, gardens, and winery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Biltmore Estate is the realization George Washington Vanderbilt's bold and enduring vision to create an estate both sustainable and beneficial to its surrounding community.
		The Biltmore house itself must be seen to be believed and the estate offers a variety ways to go about this.
		The Biltmore Estate also offers variety of dining options from wood fired pizza to gourmet specialties and for those looking for luxury accommodations, the Four Star Biltmore Inn is the perfect match.
	www.ashevillenc.com /biltmore_estate.html (668 words)

	Travel \| Rhode Island news \| projo.com \| The Providence Journal
		Six years and hundreds of craftspeople later, the Biltmore House became what it is today -- an imposing presence in grayish-beige Indiana limestone with spires, chimneys and gargoyles that dwarfs any of the Newport mansions and draws nearly a million visitors a year.
		I was impressed that Biltmore remains filled with original furnishings, a rarity in houses open for tours.
		Other tours of the house and grounds are available, at additional fees ranging from $14 to $50 (for a one-hour guided horseback tour).
	www.projo.com /travel/content/projo_20051023_biltmore.31f1cf0.html (2128 words)

	The Biltmore Estate. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Biltmore Estate is located in Asheville, North Carolina.
		It took them six years to build this house which was probably the finest in architecture and interior design.
		Biltmore Estate has 250 rooms, 34 master bedrooms, an indoor swimming pool, 3 kitchens, 65 fireplaces, and 43 bathrooms.
	www.ncsu.edu /midlink/dec98/monu/ligon/shanup/biltmore.html (156 words)

	Near-Biltmore-House bed and breakfast, Asheville NC
		Cumberland Falls Inn is a near Biltmore House Bed and Breakfast.
		Biltmore House, as you surely know, is one of the most important attractions in Asheville.
		The simple character of the house is from the turn of the century.
	www.cumberlandfalls.com /about.htm (353 words)

	Biltmore
		In 1940, ten years before his death, Beadle requested that his thousands of azaleas, his collection that he called "his children," be removed from his home and replanted in Biltmore Estate’s Glen, one of the many gardens he tended for Biltmore EstateÑthe place to which he dedicated his life.
		The Glen was renamed Biltmore Estate’s Azalea Garden, and his life-long passion became a living legacy that Biltmore Estate’s hundreds of thousands of visitors continue to enjoy each year.
		Admission to Biltmore Estate includes the grounds and gardens surrounding Biltmore House, the estates’ three restaurants and The Biltmore Estate Winery.
	www.blueridgedigest.com /spring97/biltmore.html (786 words)

	Curiosity served: Biltmore opens servants' quarters \| The San Diego Union-Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ten rooms on the fourth floor – including several that housed the servants who kept the 250-room house running – have been restored and opened to the public.
		There were 21 bedrooms for female servants on the house's fourth floor; male under-butlers and houseboys were quartered elsewhere to discourage fraternization between the sexes.
		While Biltmore House is crammed with Gilded Age opulence, the Observatory hints at a more private George Vanderbilt.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051225/news_1t25biltmore.html (1069 words)

	Biltmore Estate Celebrates Christmas
		I can imagine Father Christmas arriving at the Biltmore House quietly in the middle of the night, in a bright red coach covered in strands of holly and garland, drawn by a two teams of snow white horses.
		Biltmore Estate is the largest private owned residence in America, which makes it the perfect showcase for this expression of Christmas past.
		Biltmore Estate is perfect for all ages, the young see it a castle, and the adults see it as a work of art in human development.
	www.theblueridgehighlander.com /christmas_at_biltmore_estate/index.html (2131 words)

	Biltmore Estate Gardens
		In the shadow of Biltmore House, America’s largest private residence, are some of America’s finest formal and informal gardens.
		And it is at Biltmore Estate that this country’s father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, designed his last and largest project nearly a century ago.
		While Hunt began work on Biltmore House, Vanderbilt challenged Olmsted to transform the over-farmed, over-logged land surrounding the site of the house into a country estate, the landscaping equivalent of Hunt’s grand creation.
	www.romanticasheville.com /biltmorehorticulture.htm (579 words)

	American Meadows - Biltmore Esate Bulbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		World-famous Biltmore House, in the North Carolina mountains, is a spectacular mansion of 250 rooms.
		Unlike most of America’s historic homes and many museums, Biltmore House is not run by some high-toned non-profit, but by actual descendants of the builder.
		This is why Biltmore today is one of the most popular visitor attractions in the east.
	www.americanmeadows.com /BiltmoreEstate.cfm (577 words)

	Biltmore Estate, Biltmore House
		The Biltmore Gardens, together with the Biltmore House mansion, make up the estate designed in the spirit of the great houses of the Gilded Age.
		The Biltmore Estate is open to the public and a popular destination for Asheville visitors and residents alike.
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	www.pinecrestbb.com /biltmoreestate.html (413 words)

	Christmas at the Biltmore
		Or you can also tour the Biltmore House during the day, if you so choose, and view this house that was the largest private home in America and a technological marvel in 1895.
		When George Washington Vanderbilt III officially opened the doors to the Biltmore on Christmas Eve in 1895, it was after six years of a mammoth construction project.
		A village was built outside the property just to house them, and they traveled about three miles onto the estate each day to work.
	www.rvfreewheelin.com /biltmore1204.htm (1325 words)

	Novare Group - Biltmore House - Atlanta, Georgia
		Novare acquired Biltmore House at approximately the same time as the purchase of The Biltmore.
		Originally built as apartments, the property is next door to The Biltmore and frames one side of the properties' beautiful inner courtyard.
		In the 1980's, the Biltmore Apartments, as they were then called, were converted into a guest-suite hotel and continued operations until 1998, several years after the adjacent hotel had been abandoned.
	www.novaregroup.com /portfolio_biltmore_house.html (120 words)

	Biltmore Estate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Biltmore House is an [[oversized reproduction 18th Century-style US-revival French chateau)] near Asheville, North Carolina, built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1888 and 1895.
		Family members and friends invited from all over the United States and beyond came to experience the opulent estate with the splendor of Olmsted's sweet-smelling gardens, rich foods at the 64-seat banquet table, and the stunning beauty of Vanderbilt's mountainous grounds.
		After Vanderbilt died of complications from an appendectomy in 1914, his widow, Edith Dresser Vanderbilt, sold much of the original 125,000 acres (506 km²) to the federal government, which became the nucleus of Pisgah National Forest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biltmore_Estate (619 words)

	North Carolina's Grand Biltmore Estate -- Road & Travel
		That sense of being a guest instead of a gawking tourist is not unique to me; on a recent visit I heard the same sentiment expressed by others over afternoon tea at the Inn on Biltmore Estate, a 213-room four-star hostelry that seems much more settled in than its 2001 opening would imply.
		Then drive through the magnificently designed grounds which are exactly what Mother Nature would have created had she the talents and taste and budget of Frederick Law Olmsted, a landscape architect perhaps even better known for New York's Central Park.
		And mark this: the tours through the Biltmore House can be self-guided so you can dawdle in the billiard room, the music room, the tapestry gallery, the fascinating basement.
	www.roadandtravel.com /luxurytravel/2006/biltmoreestate.htm (281 words)

	Biltmore Estate - Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Your daytime admission ticket gives you access to Biltmore House, acres of century-old gardens, miles of hiking tra...
		Biltmore Estate is a cyclist's paradise with miles of trails.
		Discover the story behind the construction of Biltmore House with this photographic exhibit on display in the Hall...
	planner.biltmore.com /plan/planner/month.aspx (439 words)

	Inn at Biltmore Estates - Asheville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Handsomely situated on a picturesque hill that is surrounded by mountain vistas, the 213-room inn overlooks the sweeping, prestigious estate and its immense natural beauty.
		When the time comes, the Inn on Biltmore Estate is a sure bet to be highly rated by the various services that rank fine hotels.
		In addition to visiting the famous Biltmore House, America's largest private home, the gardens and the winery, guests may hike the scenic trails, take carriage rides, and go horseback riding or biking.
	www.aaacarolinas.com /Travel/Hotels/ash_biltmore.htm (766 words)

	The Biltmore House
		When we visited the Biltmore house, my youngest son Christopher Michael Griffin was only five years old.
		Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, only child to George and Edith Vanderbilt, and her husband John Amherst Cecil opened the house to the public in 1930 at the request of Asheville City officials.
		The Biltmore house is a beautiful house, but it is not as beautiful as the ONE YOU OWN!
	www.greggriffin.com /Editorials/Biltmore.htm (491 words)

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