Book Description
Original architectural drawings, sketches, plans, 19th century photographs, and new color photographs give the history and description of this architectural landmark.
Author : John Bryan
Publisher : Rizzoli
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 1994-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Original architectural drawings, sketches, plans, 19th century photographs, and new color photographs give the history and description of this architectural landmark.
Author : Whitney Wheeler Pickering
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Cooking, American
ISBN : 9780848719555
Savor the delicious cuisine and gracious hospitality that represent the pleasures of fine dining at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C. Along with more than 150 recipes, ten menus, extensive wine information and a pictorial fresh herb Glossary, a section on the history of the Biltmore Estate is included to give readers a sense of the grand backdrop against which the featured dishes originally were served.
Author : Denise Kiernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476794065
A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail” (The Wall Street Journal), the “intimate and sweeping” (Raleigh News & Observer) untold, true story behind the Biltmore Estate—the largest, grandest private residence in North America, which has seen more than 120 years of history pass by its front door. The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Teddy Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York’s best known families. She grew up in Newport and Paris, and her engagement and marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of Gilded Age society. But none of this prepared her to be mistress of Biltmore House. Before their marriage, the wealthy and bookish Vanderbilt had dedicated his life to creating a spectacular European-style estate on 125,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness. He summoned the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to tame the grounds, collaborated with celebrated architect Richard Morris Hunt to build a 175,000-square-foot chateau, filled it with priceless art and antiques, and erected a charming village beyond the gates. Newlywed Edith was now mistress of an estate nearly three times the size of Washington, DC and benefactress of the village and surrounding rural area. When fortunes shifted and changing times threatened her family, her home, and her community, it was up to Edith to save Biltmore—and secure the future of the region and her husband’s legacy. This is the fascinating, “soaring and gorgeous” (Karen Abbott) story of how the largest house in America flourished, faltered, and ultimately endured to this day.
Author : Rachel Carley
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9781885378019
Author : Oxmoor House
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780848712464
Taste the grandeur and opulence of the Victorian Era by visiting the pages of this exquisite cookbook. Discover delicious historic recipes from the private collection of Mrs. George Washington Vanderbilt, updated to accommodate life in the 1990s. They are joined by the renowned recipes of Deerpark Restaurant, located on the Biltmore Estate.
Author : Ellen Erwin Rickman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738517490
Presents a pictorial look at the history of the Biltmore Estate and the lives of the Vanderbilt family.
Author : James Crutchfield
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780983821885
During the late 1920s, brothers and Arizona businessmen Charles and Warren McArthur had a dream fostered by their growing success in providing elegant "Wonderbus" touring and camping services for the booming number of tourists to the Sonoran Desert. To realize their vision of a luxury resort hotel in the remote desert and mountains outside Phoenix, the pair enlisted a third brother, Albert Chase McArthur--architect and Frank Lloyd Wright protégé. In 1929, Albert, with the counsel of Wright, set about designing and constructing an architectural masterpiece. After the unprecedented short construction schedule of only six months, the Arizona Biltmore Hotel opened to rave reviews, was anointed with the title "Jewel of the Desert," and immediately achieved status as an "American architectural treasure." Initial ownership association with chewing gum magnate and baseball owner Charles Wrigley enhanced Arizona Biltmore's allure with the celebrities, sports figures, the wealthy, and the "glitteria" of the day. Through the ensuing decades the posh resort in the desert continued to attract the "Who's Who" of American society, film, and political circles, including such luminaries as Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Irving Berlin, President and Jackie Kennedy, Nancy and Ronald[also "President," or was this before?] Reagan, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Marilyn Monroe, and an endless register of notables seeking the tranquil setting, fine cuisine, and social swirl of the Arizona Biltmore. Today, the Waldorf Astoria group of luxury resort hotels continues to steward the historic legacy of the McArthurs' dream and provide an unprecedented luxury experience, gourmet fine dining, and outdoor activities in a bucolic and tropical garden oasis. ARIZONA BILTMORE: Jewel of the Desert is a portrait of the legacy and continuing colorful story of Arizona Biltmore and the succession of events that have contributed to the legend.
Author : Jean Bradley Anderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0822349833
This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
Author : Joyce V. Coakley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738518305
Looks at the history of the African art of sweetgrass basket making in the Christ Church Parish of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Author : Tom Poland
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1467143103
The Sunday drive. Mom, dad and the kids would head out to see the countryside. An ice cream treat usually waited at day's end. Back in the Burma-Shave days, mom-and-pop drive-ins and gas station biscuits fed folks. Cheap gas filled cars, and people made Sunday drives through a land where See Rock City barns, sawdust piles and trains and junkyards gave them plenty to see. Men in seersucker suits ran old stores with oscillating fans, and if the kids ate too much penny candy, grandma had a home remedy for them. It was a time for dinner on church grounds, yard art and old-fashioned petunias. Join author Tom Poland as he revisits disappearing traditions.