A Tourist Guide to Western North Carolina

Western North Carolina is the most diverse State geographically and therefore, offers one of the richest experiences of travel. Asheville, about 125 miles of Charlotte, is the gateway to the area.

Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains at the confluence of Broad and Swannanoa rivers French, which was established in 1794 by John Barton, who had called to "Morristown" after Robert Morris, financier of the American Revolution, but it was later changed in honor of Governor Samuel Ashe. With the advent of 1880 the Western Railroad of North Carolina, which had developed as livestock and snuff market, and today is the economic and recreational center for western North Carolina and a tourism base of the Great Mountains area Smoky National Park and Cherokee Indian culture.

Second only to Miami's Art Deco architecture, Asheville offers many attractions.

The Basilica of San Lorenzo, for example, developed jointly by the Spanish architect Rafael Gustavia and Richard Sharp Smith, is a Spanish Renaissance design in brick and tile, with a self-supporting dome and vaults of Catalan style. That was completed in 1908.

The early life of Thomas Wolfe, novelist of Asheville, can be extracted from a tour of the 29 room Queen Anne-style house where he grew up. It is now designated a state historic site.

Core Arts, Asheville is the crop of painters, sculptors and potters to refine their arts in the District of Riverside Arts.

Asheville's and all of North Carolina's view most famous and most visited, however, Biltmore Estate. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt and designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (of Central Park in New York fame), the 255-room French Renaissance chateau, which requires a construction period of five years during the height of the Gilded Age and workers more than 1,000, was the result of the travels of George Washington Vanderbilt in the area in the early 1880's and her decision to have a summer residence, reminiscent of the lining of the castles of the Loire in France Valle, built there. What is today the largest private residence in the United States and is still used in part for that purpose by the descendants of Vanderbilt.

The Vanderbilt, one of the wealthiest families and most prominent of the country led by Cornelius Vanderbilt, he had amassed his fortune through railroad, business and philanthropic activities. Passing the torch to the second generation, led by William Henry Vanderbilt, who had been able to perpetuate their success, while William Henry himself was the father of the third generation, who has four children. George Washington Vanderbilt, one of them had been less active in the business development of the family.

Opening at the Biltmore House on Christmas Eve in 1895, had participated in scientific agriculture, livestock and forestry, and brought his girlfriend, Edith Dresser Stuyvessant there, three years later. His only daughter, Cornelia, was born at home in 1900, and thirty years later, that had opened to the public.

The large house, with access from both accompanied and unescorted tours, offers a look at this century-old opulent lifestyle. The hall, the site of this period was the same access point used by the Vanderbilts and their guests and has all the glass roof conservatory. Perhaps the grandest room on the ground floor is the banquet hall. Stretching seven-story wooden roof, with large tables, three fireplaces, Flemish tapestries from the 1500, 1916 and Skinner pipe organ installed in his own loft. It had been the location of parts of the farm, galas, and issues.

The private session and bedrooms of George and Edith Vanderbilt is located on the second floor, although he notes, is the bedroom of Louis XV, the birthplace of Cornelia and the subsequent birth of two children.

Most of the servants' quarters are on the fourth floor.

Basement, the location of additional servant bedrooms has several kitchens and pantries and leisure facilities including a gym, an indoor pool of 70,000 liters, and one of the first private country residence bowling alleys .

Sitting on 8,000 acres of land, Biltmore Estate offers several facilities of interest.

Fronted by a grassy esplanade gardens inspired by the 17th century Chateau de Vaux-le-Viconto in Melun, France, with Italy, shrubs, walls spring, azaleas and gardens and a greenhouse full.






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