>>8044199 #LB#
>>Biltmore House
>Quite a large garden.
>I wonder who designed it.
>I wonder who supplied it.
>Flowers.
>Torn.
>>8044245 #LB#
>Biltmore House Landscaper?
>Funny thing to be competent at?
>Not your regular old landscaper.
>What OTHER parks? Squares? Gardens?
>this REINFORCES my other posts this and last thread.
>Vanderbilt's are interconnected with the industrialists of the age.
>Of course they were. Railroads need customers after all.
>Puts them in a UNIQUE position to facilitate the cult.
>What do cults need?
>What do flowers symbolize?
>https://qmap.pub/read/747
>This is my stop. I can't go further for now.
>Flowers and Chowder.
>Torn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Estate again (I know)
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore House, the main residence, is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 square feet (16,622.8 m2) of floor space (135,280 square feet of living area).[2] Still owned by George Vanderbilt's descendants, it remains one of the most prominent examples of Gilded Age mansions. …
we were talking about Edison & electricity and the railroads
…Biltmore House had electricity from the time it was built, though initially with DC, due to a friendship with Thomas Edison. With electricity less safe and fire more of a danger at the time, the house had six separate sections divided by brick fire walls….
Here's the answer re: design of the Biltmore Estate's gardens:
Vanderbilt envisioned a park-like setting for his home and employed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design the grounds. Olmsted was not impressed with the condition of the 125,000 acres (195 sq mi; 510 km2) and advised for a park surrounding the house, establishing farms along the river and replanting the rest as a commercial timber forest, a plan to which Vanderbilt agreed. Gifford Pinchot and later Carl A. Schenck were hired to manage the forests, with Schenck establishing the first forestry education program in the U.S., the Biltmore Forest School, on the estate grounds in 1898.
Another important aspect of the landscaping was the intentionally rustic four-mile (5 km) Approach track that began at the brick quoined and pebbledash stucco Lodge Gate at the edge of Biltmore Village, and ended at the sphinx-topped stone pillars at the Esplanade. In between, the lane was densely filled with natural and uncultivated looking foliage and shrubbery to provide a relaxing journey for guests. Olmsted made sure to incorporate 75 acres (30 ha) of formal gardens that had been requested by Vanderbilt for the grounds directly surrounding the house. He constructed a Roman formal garden, a formal garden, a bush and tulip garden, water fountains, and a conservatory with individual rooms for palms and roses. There was also a bowling green, an outdoor tea room, and a terrace to incorporate the European statuary that Vanderbilt had brought back from his travels. At the opposite end of the Esplanade is the Rampe Douce (French for “gentle incline/slope”), a graduated stairway zigzagging along a rough-cut limestone wall that leads to the grassy slope known as the Vista, topped with a statue of Diana, the goddess of the hunt.[14]
Oh noes! Were they hunting human beings? Continuing:
Water was an important aspect of Victorian landscaping and Olmsted incorporated two for the estate: the Bass Pond created from an old creek-fed millpond and the Lagoon. Each was used for guest recreation like fishing and rowing. To supply water for the estate, Olmsted engineered two reservoirs. One was a spring-fed man-made lake on nearby Busbee Mountain. The other was a man-made, brick-lined reservoir, located behind the statue of Diana in the Vista, at an elevation of approximately 266 feet (81 m) above the Esplanade.[22]