Biltmore Estate
Creator: Cleo73
Deployed: YES
Deployed On: Oct 08, 2011
Location: N/A
First to Capture: djgabriel
Last Capture: Mar 05, 2013
Number of Captures: 7
Decimal: 35.56733 -82.54583
Degrees: 35° 34.04 -82° 32.75
Biltmore House is a Châteauesque-styled mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895. It is the largest privately-owned home in the United States, at 135,000 square feet, featuring 250 rooms. Still owned by one of Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today as one of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gilded Age, and was ranked eighth on the List of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects in 2007.
In an attempt to bolster the Depression-driven economy, Vanderbilt's only child, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, and her husband, John Amherst Cecil, opened Biltmore House to the public in March 1930. Family members continued to live there until 1956, when it was permanently opened to the public as a house museum. Visitors from all over the world continue to marvel at the 70,000 gallon indoor swimming pool, bowling alley, early 20th century exercise equipment, two-story library, and other rooms filled with artworks, furniture and 19th-century novelties such as elevators, forced-air heating, centrally-controlled clocks, fire alarms and an intercom system. The estate remains a major tourist attraction in Western North Carolina and has almost one million visitors each year.
This Munzee is located at the entrance parking lot in the treeline at about chest height. Please leave a journal entry, at least letting us know where you live or where you came from at the start of your trip. Be aware of your surroundings, read the past journal entries, and please do not look for this Munzee with security guards nearby ~ they seem quite protective.
In an attempt to bolster the Depression-driven economy, Vanderbilt's only child, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, and her husband, John Amherst Cecil, opened Biltmore House to the public in March 1930. Family members continued to live there until 1956, when it was permanently opened to the public as a house museum. Visitors from all over the world continue to marvel at the 70,000 gallon indoor swimming pool, bowling alley, early 20th century exercise equipment, two-story library, and other rooms filled with artworks, furniture and 19th-century novelties such as elevators, forced-air heating, centrally-controlled clocks, fire alarms and an intercom system. The estate remains a major tourist attraction in Western North Carolina and has almost one million visitors each year.
This Munzee is located at the entrance parking lot in the treeline at about chest height. Please leave a journal entry, at least letting us know where you live or where you came from at the start of your trip. Be aware of your surroundings, read the past journal entries, and please do not look for this Munzee with security guards nearby ~ they seem quite protective.