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John Bryan

Biltmore Estate

The Most Distinguished Private Place

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The most distinguished private place - that is how, in 1893, the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described Biltmore Estate, perhaps the most ambitious private building project of America's Gilded Age. It was only five years earlier that George Washington Vanderbilt purchased the first parcel of what would become his 125,000-acre estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Along with Olmsted, he commissioned the preeminent architect of the day, Richard Morris Hunt, to design the estate. The house, modeled in part on the chateaux of the Loire Valley, has become one of the greatest and most important in American architectural history. I… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8478-1811-2
  • EAN: 9780847818112
  • Produktnummer: 9333655
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.

Über den Autor


John Bryan is a former professor of art and architectural history at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Creating the South Carolina State House and Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place.

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