Vanderbilt Family Fortune & Biltmore Estate

Description: The Vanderbilts And the Story of Their Fortune By W. A. Croffutt, 1886 310 Pages, Illustrated, Searchable - Bonus - Biltmore House Published 1920 32 pages, Illustrated, Searchable - Bonus - Biltmore House Photogravures Published 1900 19 pages, Illustrated - Bonus - Biltmore Nursery Published 1907 194 pages, Illustrated, Searchable - Bonus - Forest Protection Guide to Lectures Delivered at Biltmore Forest School By Carl Alwyn Schwenke, 1909 172 pages, Searchable - Bonus - Forest Management Forest Working PlansGuide to Lectures Delivered atBiltmore Forest School By Carl Alwyn Schwenke, 1907 42 pages, Searchable - Bonus - Forest FinanceGuide to Lectures Delivered atBiltmore Forest School By Carl Alwyn Schwenke, 1909 52 pages, Searchable - Bonus - Biltmore Forest An Account of Its Treatment andResults of the First Year's Work By Gifford Pinchot, 1893 47 pages, Illustrated********************************************************************Digital EBook CD Requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to ViewAutoboot CD for easy PC access; Manually load on MAC ******************************************************************** 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 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. George Vanderbilt's idea was to replicate the working estates of Europe. He commissioned prominent New York architect Richard Morris Hunt, who had previously designed houses for various Vanderbilt family members, to design the house in the Châteauesque style, using several Loire Valley French Renaissance architecture chateaux, including the Chateau de Blois, as models. The estate included its own village, today named Biltmore Village, and a church, today known as the Cathedral of All Souls. Vanderbilt went on extensive buying-trips overseas as construction on the house was in progress. He returned to North Carolina with thousands of furnishings for his newly built home. These included furniture, tapestries, hundreds of carpets, prints, linens, and decorative objects, all dating between the 1400s and the late 1800s, and all coming from various eastern and western countries and continents around the world. Among the few American-made items were the more practical oak drop-front desk, rocking chairs, a walnut grand piano, bronze candlesticks and a wicker wastebasket. In an attempt to bolster the estate's financial situation during the Depression, Vanderbilt's only child, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, and her husband, John Amherst Cecil, opened Biltmore House to the public in March 1930. Family members continued to live there until 1956, when it was permanently opened to the public as a house museum. Visitors can view the 70,000-gallon indoor swimming pool, bowling alley, early 20th century exercise equipment, two-story library, and other rooms filled with artworks, furniture and 19th-century novelties such as elevators, forced-air heating, centrally controlled clocks, fire alarms and an intercom system. The estate remains a major tourist attraction in Western North Carolina and has almost 1 million visitors each year. Just insert the CD into your Windows computer and use the menu to open your book(s), and to download the latest version of Adobe Reader. If your system security prevents the CD from auto loading, just double-left click the Autorun file on the CD. For MAC (or Windows) manually open the PDF file for your book. Don’t forget to also open the pictures/maps and audio files. Check out my other items! 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Price: 11.99 USD

Location: Midlothian, Virginia

End Time: 2024-08-10T03:03:54.000Z

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