"Biltmore" 



The Estate ot George W. Vanderbilt, Esq., in North Carolina 



T is a flattering comment on the architectural splendor of Biltmore that, while Mr. 

 Vanderbilt's great house is not new as new houses are now counted, public interest 

 in it as the greatest of American country houses has never languished. Its building 

 has been followed by the opening up of a long unknown country, and the develop- 

 ment of countrv activities and interests on a scale never before attempted in America. 



The house is as completely without rivals as is the estate. It stands on a sjmr of a hill 

 which has been leveled to make space for it, overlooking the French Broad River. It commands 

 what is surely one of the most magnificent views in the world, a succession of hills and valleys 

 and rolling country of almost limitless extent, reaching as far as the eye can see, stretching 



Copyright. 1903. by C. F. Ray. Aslie^ille. N. C. 



"BILTMORE"— THE GARDEN. 



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