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The Biltmore Estate might be America's largest private home and a tourist destination visited by over one million visitors to the Asheville, North Carolina area each year, but its connections to Hollywood, the film industries, and a few well-known celebrities via a now mostly broke old money dynasty run deeply. A full deep dive into its legacy and
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There's one in Los Angeles, too, so I guess it's a chain (google confirms it at least was a chain in the 1920s LOL).
You know what was filmed at the Biltmore Los Angeles?
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It's now condos, office space, and has a ballroom where I'm pretty sure every school within city limits holds their prom.
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There were many weddings there too back then!
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Spent a year living at Peachtree Manor, former brothel at one point, when it was still apartments. We kept running up against the Biltmore. Plus you can't miss the sign.
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I love it so much because old brick buildings with interesting street level entrances are rare in Atlanta.
I'm always semi-jealous when I see people hanging out on that outdoor "patio" and doing their thing and I just want a tour, cause I'm curious. Is it nice inside or is it just old bricks and basic Midtown Atlanta stuff?
Even today during Streets Alive it was a thing, and oh my that place has prime PRIDE viewing.
FWIW, I did help a very wasted face guy get back into there once. It was a few years ago and in the morning. Drunk guy just stumbling - into me (literally), and I recruited fellow randos to help -- and punching in numbers into that gate. His person came and collected him, thankfully.
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It was a chain but I think they've been split up and now they're just separate but similarly named because Biltmore means "fancy"-ish.
Here's another one about the Vanderbilts/Biltmore (there were a lot of Vanderbilts since they popped out a bunch of kids early on, so it's important to know the Biltmore Vanderbilts (although they're now Cecils and other names - it passed down to a daughter) were just one branch. The Gilded Age is supposedly based on the Vanderbilts (and a woman who married into the Vanderbilts after her family lost everything in the Civil War and she reeeeally wanted to be rich again) - and how many other rich families at the time saw them as New Money, until they were Old Money, until they were What Money.
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