The Secret Passageways of Biltmore House

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The Secret Passageways of Biltmore House | Biltmore

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6 ай бұрын

ave you ever wondered about secret passageways in Biltmore House?
Here, Biltmore House host Elaine shows us a hidden staircase in the Library of our Gilded Age mansion. Learn more: www.biltmore.com
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Biltmore Estate is located in Asheville, North Carolina, and was completed in 1895. This National Historic Landmark remains privately owned and continues to be maintained by George Vanderbilt's descendants. The estate features America's Largest Home designed by Richard Morris Hunt, 8,000 acres of renowned gardens and grounds designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted, distinct overnight accommodations including a four-star Inn and private cottages, an award-winning winery, numerous restaurants, event and meeting venues, working farms, and more.
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@dianaaiello588 5 ай бұрын

The library is one of my favs in the Biltmore House . ❤

@vurtch 3 ай бұрын

Did the flooring repairs and replacements for years. Not just the main house but all the family's private residences on the property

@acboone7 21 сағат бұрын

That’s so cool I’m jealous! I would love to spend a lot of time there even if it’s while working! And it’s cool that you saw the private family areas! I am sure those family areas are amazing also!

@mrsochoaochoa6878 6 ай бұрын

Man, some people have such beautiful homes. It’s amazing. We all should be so lucky. But I hate to be the one who has to clean that house.

@SlurryNoises 3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't! Housekeeping such a beautiful castle while being paid? Heck yes!!

@joel.ha. Ай бұрын

You know the cleaners get paid way more than most

@Lalad56 4 ай бұрын

Been there it is a beautiful mansion...but a sadness lingers in the air

@tg22224 4 ай бұрын

Read the history of the Vanderbilt family and then you’ll understand why the sadness lingers. I thought the same thing and then did my research and was not surprised about what I read.

@kylepatterson9389 3 ай бұрын

it's because half the town is built on mass graves.

@vdubskiee5356 3 ай бұрын

@@tg22224it lingers because of the EVIL in the air. open your eyes silly rabbit

@MountainPearls 3 ай бұрын

Because it was, in part, a Spite Castle…ever heard of a Spite House, well, ultimately The Biltmore House is likely the biggest Spite House ever guilt (at least in America). I grew up on the area. We had our prom on the property. My grandfather worked for the dairy. They don’t like to advertise it but the info. is out there. Long story short, THE Vanderbilts and Astors gave feuded with one another for centuries…back to NYC being New Amsterdam and possibly in “Holland” before that. (They’re both of Dutch Descent). The Vanderbilts saw themselves as somewhat “higher class” and the Astors were more “new money” (only a little). Being iron and rail tycoons was seen as more socially elite (for a lack of a way to put it) as being hoteliers. It all came to a head over the St Regis Holtel on 5th Avenue…the Astor’s were planning It and had acquired the property…which did NOT please the Vanderbilts one bit. You see, it was being built. across the street was Millionaires Row (much of the row’s architecture inspired the Biltmore house …and was based on a French Chateau). More importantly, many of the Vandy’s and their cronies had homes there….right across the street. They were pissed, to say the least, when the Astor’s filed plans for the hotel. They did want the mess or construction noise. Their clique of insanely wealthy Robber Barons looked down on Hotels, in general, a bit too and didn’t want to live across the street from one. (They believed truly well bred people didn’t “rent apartments or rooms” -that they should own something or stayed with friends when you traveled…like the English Aristocracy…which their cliques fancied themselves much like. Vanderbilt’s daughter, and only child, Cornelia, even married into the English Aristocracy. They didn’t want the “Upper Middle Class” staying across from them. “God, no.” They’d be inundated every summer! ). They did everything to stop it’s build (two faced backstabbing type stuff. There are lots of long sordid stories of the push and pull to build that hotel…which is still there and famous. It is, in fact, one of the reasons-it’s thought…or speculated upon….that Millionaire’s Row isn’t there anymore. They didn’t want to stay…thought selling their property would keep the hotel away, and so forth…it was a big, messy fight.) But, in the end, the Astors go the go ahead. So THEN….it was the Vanderbilts move. The Biltmore House was always going to be built large and in the works…but Cornelius Vanderbilt, *allegedly,* built it thousands upon thousands of of square feet larger, put in the gardens, pool, amenities, and winery etc. to, it is said-in part at least-to spite the Astors over The St. Regis Hotel. The timing of it all adds up for sure. It was a great, great big FU/Middle finger to the Astor’s and their friends in the NC Mountains. The Astors may have had their hotels…but the Vanderbilts, and *their* cronies, had this mansion or “spite castle” to go to in the summers when they didn’t go to Newport, Rhode Island. There wasn’t enough room for such an estate-one that would pull the business from the Astor’s- in the Northeast so he went to the Northern most resort town of the South. Half of Western North Carolina was essentially Cornelius Vanderbilt’s giant English like “estate” or there because of him (and, later, where people vacationed…in hotels NOT owned by the Astors). Most of it became National Park land or was sold or is still a tourist town…depending. He built a whole railroad down here from NYC just to get everyone to it. (And from Indiana to get the massive amounts of limestone there). They would go there in the summers and so forth. Vanderbilt actually died because he wouldn’t let a local doctor remove his appendix and was trying to get back to NYC. My grandfather, in the 1950s, delivered milk for Biltmore Dairies. He worked with some old guy who worked at the house in mid-April 1912 as a young man (teens). The older man swore up and down that he saw a sort of impromptu party/champagne being pulled out after word reached them that John Jacob Astor’s body had been plucked from the icy waters of the North Atlantic days after the Titanic sunk (I have absolutely no idea if this is true…but I’ve heard it for as long as I can remember. The old man told the story often…said he remembered the telegram arriving. The locals did pay attention to what the rich did. We weren’t all dumb hillbillies, you know. That being said, The Cecil’s do a lot for the Asheville area. As does the business the house brings via tourism (ironically enough-what Vanderbilt was *sort of* fighting). In fact, The NICU that saved my nieces life was put on by the next generation of Cecils who had twins born quite early-and they barely survived (Cornelius Vanderbilt had one daughter who inherited it…the family still owns it. If that story is true, they aren’t really the same sort of people. I think the old rivalry probably died. I guess).

@Chris-yv9tv 4 ай бұрын

I love this joint i live about 20 minutes away, ive seen it mant times, i remember when they found the hidden rooma no one had been in for many, many, years, go check it out its massive.

@acky6174 3 ай бұрын

Where was it located?

@ghostbombl8034 2 ай бұрын

I wonder what in the underground secret passages. 😅

@KP_Uravity 4 ай бұрын

Vanderbilt 🤢 Library 🥰

@gavinharris4170 2 ай бұрын

I hate that one of our biggest attractions in town is just some rich person's house that people pay $100 and over to go visit.

@xanthonyjamesx Ай бұрын

Where they filmed Richie Rich 🥰

@mintywho 3 ай бұрын

Ive been there its pretty cool

@anyabureau9894 5 ай бұрын

Stairs and books at your disposal in Uncle Chuck’s Cabin Rental

@kimdasko6952 3 ай бұрын

I live near that house. I'll never understand why people go there and go oooh and aaahhh. Other people's opulence does nothing for me.

@JungleRixhJr 3 ай бұрын

Nothing like ashevilles royal family house

@NoBody-xg1wg 3 ай бұрын

Go ahead and spend obscene money for a ticket..

@alansmith133 3 ай бұрын

That's also Ellen DeGeneres's wardrobe

@BIKINGWITHBOBO 3 ай бұрын

Can you re-post this with the theme song from Downton Abbey please?

@dannil9878 Ай бұрын

You can tell that this is a very New building from the big fireplace put in a library. That would never have been done in real palaces

@benjamingarrett9960 2 ай бұрын

Not secret anymore

@Mauipete 4 ай бұрын

A rich man’s folly

@ghostof1898 5 ай бұрын

Ooooohhhh awesome a giant house. Ironic in a place where homelessness is a issue because housing is too expensive.

@184Ridgerunner 3 ай бұрын

Yep, I live 4 miles away. Homeless numbers have exploded.

@gavinharris4170 2 ай бұрын

It's absolutely disgusting and abhorrent that our biggest attraction in town is a rich person's home where tickets to go see it are over $100, and not even 5 minutes away you can see homelessness on the streets.