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Biltmore Estate

United States · 19th century

Founded
1889
Style
Renaissance Revival architecture
Architect
Frederick Law Olmsted, Richard Morris Hunt
Heritage status
National Register of Historic Places listed place · National Historic Landmark
Location
Asheville
Coordinates
35.54°, -82.55194°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Biltmore Estate in the United States
Photo: Blake Lewis · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. The main residence is the Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895. It is the largest privately owned house in the United States at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft (12,568 m2) of living area. It is still owned by George Vanderbilt's descendants and remains one of the most prominent examples of Gilded Age mansions.

Text adapted from “Biltmore Estate” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Biltmore Estate ranks #293 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #5 of the 120 mapped in United States. Founded 1889, one of 782 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 95,548 times in the last 60 days, more than 99% of the atlas. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.

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