Biltmore: Map & Resources
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Directions from Boone
Occasionally on-line maps recommend traveling down to Marion and west on Route 70 to Old Fort NC. This route is not recommended. The speed limit on the I-40 access road in Old Fort is an unsafe 35 m.p.h. and is heavily enforced. At the bottom of this page is a better route.
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Books About Biltmore & the Vanderbilts
Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
- Published: Harper Collins 1991
- by Arthur T. Vanderbilt III
- From the Introduction: "The nation's first great industrial fortune was won by the Vanderbilt family, and for a while this family could claim the title of the richest in the world. Subsequent fortunes surpassed it, but by then great wealth was decried. The unique opportunity that confronted the members of this particular family was the freedom to use their fortune just as they damned pleased, to create whatever reality they wanted, to give free rein to their every impulse without any sense of the social responsibility that great wealth confers."
- A very readable history of the making and spending of the Vanderbilt fortune.
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Images of America: Biltmore Estate
- Published: Arcadia Publishing 2005
- by Ellen Erwin Rickman
- From the cover: "For the first time, the history of Biltmore Estate from its inception to the year it opened to the public is told through photographs from the Biltmore Estate Archives. Many of these photographs have never been published before. They illustrate the amazing talent that went into the creation of Biltmore Estate, the complexity of estate operations, and the private lives of the Vanderbilts, their friends, and family members."
- The Images of America series provides great pictorial histories and rare photos.
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Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon
- Published: John Wiley & Sons 2006
- by Howard E. Covington, Jr.
- From the inside cover: "A National Historic Landmark, George Vanderbilt's dream home welcomes visitors to experience its glorious past as well as its exciting future. Once described by David Rockefeller as a "white elephant" what makes Biltmore Estate as popular a destination as Monticello, Mount Vernon, and Colonial Williamsburg."
- Covington gives a highly sympathetic look at the saving of the Biltmore Estate by William A. V. Cecil.
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