In 1996, I attended a conservative conference called Dark Ages at the Phoenix Biltmore resort.
As I looked around, I realized why Biltmore Estate is popular as a destination vacation spot.
The real amazement however, is the effect the Biltmore Estate has on its visitors.
Unveiled on Christmas Eve 1895, after six years of construction, Biltmore Estate today remains imaginatively compelling.
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"Everyone is looking to the April jobs numbers, " said Tyler Vernon, chief investment officer at Biltmore Capital.
Families were placed in suites, with bathrooms (Biltmore has 43) containing the best plumbing of the day.
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Marin's brick wall proved to be his 10, 000 square-foot home in the Biltmore Estates, an exclusive enclave in Phoenix.
The enormous, winding, three-mile approach road to the Biltmore House, built in the late 1800s near Asheville, N.
The Biltmore experience begins with the dramatic three-mile-long Approach Road, one of landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted's signature achievements.
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Surrounded by 8, 000 acres of land, the Biltmore Estate is a picturesque castle hidden away in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
At Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix, outdoor walkways, myriad restaurants and spas surround top retail names like Neiman Marcus and Gucci.
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Next, Murrow negotiated a contract with the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta and attached to the contract a list of the member colleges.
While this format is unusual, it is not unknown: The grandest example is the Vanderbilt family's 250-room mansion, Biltmore House, in Asheville, N.
George Washington Vanderbilt, who built the estate, was an ardent traveler, art collector and bibliophile whose interests are embodied in Biltmore's furnishings and design.
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Driving away from the Biltmore, the aura of luxury faded quickly.
Cecil Jr. is now president and CEO of the Biltmore Company.
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If the manager of the Biltmore failed to notice that the list included black colleges, well, that wasn't the fault of the NSFA or its president.
Creating the estate must have consumed a significant chunk of his inheritance, but Darren Poupore, Biltmore's chief curator, says the archives are silent on financial details.
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Biltmore (a name derived in part from Bildt, the Vanderbilts' Dutch town of origin) has been receiving guests since its completion, and paying ones since 1930.
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From the first, improbable view of Biltmore, looming over a vast lawn and framed by the Blue Ridge Mountains, we know we are in the realm of fantasy.
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Vanderbilt constructed Biltmore as a bachelor, but soon found a suitable wife to serve as hostess: Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, New York's first colonial governor.
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Even in these economically challenging times, Biltmore retains its power to delight, enticing us back to an aesthetically alluring past whose inegalitarian edges have been sanded smooth by time.
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The police forces in both Philadelphia and Los Angeles are taking the threat of disorder seriously (as is Al Gore, who has already decided not to stay in the downtown Biltmore hotel).
The Four Seasons Resort the Biltmore Santa Barbara, in California, turned a 400-square-foot guest room into a walk-in closet for a guest who stayed in the suite next door for about four months.
Another Biltmore distinction: Most of the items on exhibit, from portraits by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent to the crystal, porcelain and Flemish tapestries, are original to the house and the family.
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