Saturday, April 30, 2016

This was mentioned as an aside in Red Bulletin.....Asheville, NC was mentioned in an article about 5 places to do extreme sports...............Asheville was running up a mountain......surfing in No. Oregon was another........Hawaii........San Fran....swimming from Alcatraz to San Fran........Michigan's upper penn......another....


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Biltmore Estate
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Biltmore House
LocationAshevilleNorth Carolina, United States
Coordinates35°32′22.74″N82°33′3.42″W
Built1889–95
ArchitectRichard Morris HuntFrederick Law Olmsted
Architectural styleChâteauesque
NRHP Reference #66000586[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 15, 1966;
49 years ago
Biltmore Estate is a large (8,000 acre) 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 (16,622.8 m2)[2] of floor space (135,280 square feet (12,568 m2) of living area). Still owned by one of Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today as one of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gilded Age. In 2007, it was ranked eighth in America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.

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