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The Vanderbilts
Author | : Jerry E. Patterson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1989-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UVA:X001688291 |
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Nearly 250 pictures reveal the striking personalities of this extraordinary family and the glittering interiors in which they led their fabled lives.
Biltmore House America s Largest Private Residence
Author | : Ruth Daly |
Publsiher | : Weigl Publishers |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781489633910 |
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Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Biltmore House boasts the title of America’s largest private residence. Built more than 100 years ago by George Washington Vanderbilt, Biltmore House stands as a lasting legacy of the Gilded Age of American history. Explore the facility, history, people, and science behind the building in Biltmore House, a Castles of the World book.
The Last Castle
Author | : Denise Kiernan |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781476794068 |
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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.
Social Register Summer
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : SRLF:A0012443313 |
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North Carolina Women
Author | : Michele Gillespie,Sally G. McMillen |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2014-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820346540 |
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North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women's equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and times of pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century, offering important new insights into the variety of North Carolina women's experiences across time, place, race, and class, and conveys how women were able to expand their considerable influence during periods of political challenge and economic hardship, particularly over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These essays highlight North Carolina's progressive streak and its positive impact on women's education—for white and black alike— beginning in the antebellum period on through new opportunities that opened up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They explore the ways industrialization drew large numbers of women into the paid labor force for the first time and what the implications of this tremendous transition were; they also examine the women who challenged traditional gender roles, as political leaders and labor organizers, as runaways, and as widows. The volume is especially attuned to differences in region within North Carolina, delineating women's experiences in the eastern third of the state, the piedmont, and the western mountains.
Fortune s Children
Author | : Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780062288370 |
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Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders who dissipated such a vast inheritance.
The American Country House
Author | : Clive Aslet |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300105053 |
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This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. The American Country House draws on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the lives the buildings served as well as architectural shapes they took. 275 illustrations.
Humanities
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Education, Humanistic |
ISBN | : NWU:35556042496034 |
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