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The Biltmore Estate: Gardens and Grounds (Images of America)

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Within the spring of 1888, George Washington Vanderbilt returned to New York after spending weeks exploring the countryside near Asheville, North Carolina. Thinking it was once the very best place to build his home, Vanderbilt promptly sent his agent to start quietly buying contiguous tracts of land until he had a number of thousand acres. Soon, he started constructing what would turn into The usa’s largest private place of abode. He commissioned two of The usa’s preeminent designers, architect Richard Morris Hunt and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, to collaborate with him in planning his estate, which he named Biltmore. To complement the 250-room French Renaissance-style chateau, Olmsted worked closely with Hunt to create a vast landscape of pleasure gardens and grounds with miles of scenic drives through parklands, productive farms, and the country’s first scientifically managed forest. As of late, Biltmore is a National Historic Landmark privately owned by Vanderbilt’s descendants.

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