The Biltmore Estate, which is still the largest privately owned house in America, is beautiful at Christmastime, even as it serves as a stark reminder of the inequality of the Gilded Age.
When the disgustingly wealthy railroad heir George Washington Vanderbilt II built a massive mansion outside Asheville in the 1890s, he probably didn’t expect working stiff plebes to regularly traipse throughout it mere decades later. That’s the ultimate fate of Biltmore House, though.
How many trees are we talking about here? Over 60. Lights? Try 45,000 or so—not counting 250 candles, or the 135,000 lights found elsewhere on the estate’s grounds. This is a mansion that’s over 178,000 square feet big. It has, again, 250 rooms. It’sof room for Christmas trees with all the fixins. Most public rooms in the mansion reflect the splendor of this dining hall but to varyingly smaller degrees. If there is a room guests would’ve been invited to by the Vanderbilts, you can expect to find a tree with lights and ornaments, with garlands and other seasonal greenery hung in tasteful arrangements.
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