Vanderbilt

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‘Downton Abbey’ Visits Biltmore

Biltmore Estate makes the perfect setting for the costumes from “Downton Abbey.”
George Vanderbilt opened the Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve 1895; construction had lasted six years.

Biltmore: The Caretakers

"Into whose hands will the future carry this estate?" --William Field, gentleman farmer, philanthropist and friend of George Vanderbilt, in a letter to his mother, 1896

Departments

Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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