The opulent interior of the Biltmore dining room includes an ornate gold ceiling and a marble fireplace decorated with burgundy Christmas garland. Burgundy brocade-covered chairs encircle an oval table covered with a white linen tablecloth, china place settings, and candles, and candelabra sconces and paintings grace the walls. A green and red lighted Christmas tree at one end of the room reflects its light on the polished wood floor.

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One of many decorative dormer windows on the west side roof of Biltmore House featuring intricate carvings.

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'Gasps of wonder': The 19th-Century US home that embodied the super-rich The largest privately owned home in the US, Biltmore House was an "American chateau built on the scale of a European palace". It reveals much about the dreams of the US's one per cent.

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Biltmore Blooms: Chasing the Tulip Transition to Azalea Season | WNC Times Biltmore Blooms is back! See tulips transition to azaleas at Biltmore Estate's spring celebration, March 26-May 21. Plan your visit!

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The Byodo-In Temple near Ahuimanu, #Oahu feels like a little piece of Japan on the Hawaiian Islands, for #PalacePicks, in the #PalacesAndGardens theme today.

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A view of the Biltmore House looking across a small part of the grounds in front of the house. There is a large green lawn with a circular pool, driveways on each side, lined with mature, green trees. The house looks like a castle with its Châteauesque and French Gothic style. There are dramatic clouds in the sky, but the sun is shining on the house and grounds for the moment.

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The Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina. Known as the largest privately owned houses in America. It's quite grandiose with the house and accompanying garden and grounds.

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A section of a room in the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina. It has a large oil painting on the wall of the current Biltmore Family. They are dressed nicely, but it is a casual pose. The painting has a gold frame. On each side of the painting are windows with green velvet drapes and tapestries as valances. Small trees in large oriental pots sit in front of the windows. In front of the painting is a huge table with a massive and gorgeous flower arrangement as well as taper candles on each side. They all sit on a tapestry table runner. The floor has an oriental rug. Biltmore House is the largest privately owned house in America and is very much like a palace in size, grounds and furnishings.

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Small amounts of upholstery and textiles are in this room of the Biltmore House in North Carolina. The painting is the current Biltmore Family. Tapestries are used as accessories.

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Closeup view of bright yellow flowers whose petals are light yellow at the tips and darker yellow near the center. The very center of the flower has greenish-gold stamen. The stigma is a yellowish green with very light center. Biltmore House Botanical Garden, Asheville, North Carolina.

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Rudbeckia hirta (prairie sun) flowers in the Biltmore House Botanical Garden, Asheville, North Carolina.

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Biltmore blues. Rainy day walking.
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Black and white image of the Biltmore House, the largest privately owned house in the US. From this view (the side of the house), there is an outdoor terrace that has a lot of wisteria plants growing on trellises. The terrace is built up on a stone wall with an elaborate rail around the edge. The house has a lot of embellishment and decoration which is Châteauesque in style. The sky is mostly dramatic clouds with clear spots poking through. People are walking on the stairs that lead up to the house. Biltmore House, Asheville , North Carolina

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The Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina

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Black and white image. We are standing at the shallow end of an empty indoor swimming pool, looking towards the deep end. The pool and the room are all white tile. There are a couple of hanging lights over the pool, as well as what would be underwater lights around the bottom of the pool. There is a balcony/walkway on the left that has a metal rail as well as ropes hanging from the rail. At the far end, the balcony/platform continues and a ladder goes down to the bottom of the deep end. There was probably a diving board in this location. Two potted trees are also on the platform. Biltmore House, Asheville, North Carolina.

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It sort of looks like a dungeon, but it is an empty indoor swimming pool inside the Biltmore House.

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A black and white image of an underground gum room that is covered with tile. Various old gym equipment is in the room: parallel bars, mats, rope ladder, perhaps a rowing machine, scales, bowling pins, and two small showers. There is one small window to the right. Biltmore House, Asheville, North Carolina

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Dungeon with instruments of torture? 😁

Old gym in the basement of the Biltmore House, Asheville, North Carolina

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Black and white image of an underground indoor bowling alley in the Biltmore House. The view is straight down the alley with the ball return in the middle. The floor is polished wood. There are hanging lights also down the center of the alley. The walls are plain white, and there is a radiator for heat on the right wall. Biltmore House, Asheville, North Carolina.

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Indoor bowling alley in the Biltmore House, Asheville, North Carolina.

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Black and white image looking up a multiple-level stairwell that has three large iron rings that hold candles. The iron work's basic structure is like a wagon wheel, but it has a lot of embellishment. The ironwork of the stair rails is also elaborate. Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina. It is the largest privately owned houses in the US.

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Lanterns hanging throughout the multiple floors of the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina.

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A round indoor room with a pergola-like domed, glass ceiling that lets in a lot of light for the garden setting full of tropical plants, palms and ferns. It has a fountain in the center and seating around the fountain. There is also a small round table at one seating arrangement. The ceiling is all wood and glass, and there eight hanging lanterns made of wrought iron and opaque amber glass. This is the indoor conservatory room in the Biltmore House, Asheville, North Carolina.

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Garden setting seating inside the indoor conservatory of the Biltmore House, North Carolina.

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A closeup of thick vines that are twisted and tangled. Green algae grows on some of them, adding a dash of color and nuance. These were growing up the pillars of pergolas at the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina.

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The lines of twisted and tangled vines.

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We're standing on one of the balconies of the Biltmore House looking out at the Appalachian vista of green grass, trees, hills, distant mountains and a mostly cloudy sky. We can see one corner of the House with its arched, paned window set in smooth stones. Below that the exterior is rougher stone and smaller, narrower arched windows. A rain gutter pipe runs down the corner of the building. Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina.

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View of the Appalachian landscape from one of the balconies of the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina.

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A large house that resembles a castle with an elaborate design of stone brick facade, spires, beautiful windows, and beautiful grounds. There is a huge green lawn stretching out in front of it with an access road circling around the lawn. Trees line the edges of the access road. There are puffy clouds in the sky, but the sun was shining for this moment. Tour buses and people are also seen on the grounds.

#PalacesandGardens

The Biltmore House in North Carolina, owned by the Vanderbilt Family. It is the largest individually owned house in America.

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A black and white image of the Biltmore House which is very ornate and resembles European palaces and castles. Located in Asheville, North Carolina in the US, it is owned by the Vanderbilt family, although they no longer reside in the house, but nearby. Public tours help pay for the upkeep. People are walking up stairs to the front of the house.

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This is a side view of the #BiltmoreHouse in Asheville, North Carolina. It is the largest individually-owned house in the US (owned by the Vanderbilts). It also has beautiful grounds and gardens.

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Looking a very large chateau style house with a large green lawn in front, tall trees lining the driveway leading to the estate. The sky is partly cloudy with gray puffy clouds.

#Scape

The Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina. It reminded me of so many of the castles in Europe. This is the largest privately owned house in the US and was built by and owned by the Vanderbilt family.

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Looking out at a green landscape of green grass and trees for a long distance, with mountains in the background. The sky is overcast. On the right side of the image is a corner of the Biltmore House with a textured stone base, then smooth bricks above. There is a wide-arched, paned window and smaller, narrower-arched windows below in the textured rocks.

#Scape

View of Appalachia from one balcony of the #BiltmoreHouse

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Biltmore Architectural Detail by Carol Montoya Biltmore Architectural Detail Photograph by Carol Montoya

Biltmore Architectural Detail

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Even savvy museum visitors need a bit of spring flora! How did you step into spring this week?

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Do you know where I am? My old stomping grounds where once upon a time I was curator. Needed a bit of spring and culture. Have you been?

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Lion Guarding the Castle

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Biltmore House From The Tea Room In Snow

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Biltmore Christmas Night All Covered In Snow Painting
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Biltmore Cantilevered Staircase and Chandelier in Black and White

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Biltmore Azalea Garden Painting by Carol Montoya Biltmore Azalea Garden Painting Photograph by Carol Montoya

Biltmore Azalea Garden Painting

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