ONTD Original: The Biltmore Estate, the Vanderbilts, and Hollywood

Aug 17, 2024 18:37

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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 ( Read more... )

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peddlestools August 17 2024, 23:52:28 UTC
today i learned the biltmore hotel in miami was named after this place

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squirrels_oh_no August 17 2024, 23:56:18 UTC

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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syzygy09 August 18 2024, 00:12:21 UTC
There's a Biltmore in Atlanta too.

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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delfintaka August 18 2024, 02:16:33 UTC
I used to work there at one point!

There were many weddings there too back then!

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syzygy09 August 18 2024, 02:22:12 UTC
oh there are still plenty of weddings too, but prom season always sticks out to me. With each passing year I'll walk by it and realize I have zero concept of what high schoolers actually look like.

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veracity August 18 2024, 07:47:24 UTC
I'm pretty sure they filmed at least one RHOA reunion there. I recognized the streets.

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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syzygy09 August 19 2024, 04:46:54 UTC
Not to dox myself, but I walk past that building where you used to live multiple times a week.

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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__onthebound August 22 2024, 04:36:50 UTC
I had no idea there was a biltmore chain. I know the LA one. Was it named after? I never thought about Vanderbilt and biktmore had any connection

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squirrels_oh_no August 22 2024, 05:06:47 UTC

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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aristobrit August 18 2024, 00:19:47 UTC
There's also an Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, and that's where the Tequila Sunrise was created.

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