George Washington Vanderbilt’s Gilded Age mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt remains a popular tourist destination to this day. By Claudia Williams. February 29, 2024.

After a two-month journey through England and France in 1889, George Washington Vanderbilt III decided to entrust the design of the Biltmore Estate to American architect Richard Morris Hunt.

When the disgustingly wealthy railroad heir George Washington Vanderbilt II (or maybe the III—the family literally couldn’t decide what number to give him) built a massive mansion outside ...

George Vanderbilt died in 1914. After his death, his wife, Edith, sold around 87,000 acres of the estate to the United States Forest Service . In 1930 , Cornelia and her husband John Cecil opened ...