A Gilded Age Paradise
Approximately 40 minuites by car from this bloggers home is one of the outstanding homes in America. The fact that it is still privately owned by the desendents of the original builder and owner of the home is nothing short of miraculous. The home of which this blogger speaks is of course Biltmore House in Ashville North Carolina, ordered built by George Washington Vanderbilt in 1890, completed in 1895. Initially George Vanderbilt dreamed of owning a simple wooden Victorian farm house with land. This dream would eventually turn into an estate consisting of 140,000 acres centered around a 255 room French style chateau. Today, the home still stands along with 7,000 acres (Biltmore Dairy) and award winning gardens that bring people from all over the world to see. The house itself is much more beautiful in person than any photograph can show. The house is built from a pale color stone that reflects the light for that perfect photograph. And for a house of this vastness the interior is ve