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How Biltmore Survived When Every Other Vanderbilt Mansion Fell

America remembers the Vanderbilts as the Gilded Age in stone — marble stairs, chandeliers, and Fifth Avenue “palaces.” But when taxes climbed and upkeep turned brutal, the family did the unthinkable: they erased their own legend. Six hundred forty Fifth Avenue fell in nineteen fourteen. Six hundred sixty Fifth Avenue followed in nineteen twenty-six. The giant at one West Fifty-Seventh Street was rubble by nineteen twenty-seven. And yet one Vanderbilt house refused to die. Biltmore wasn’t a Manhattan address — it was one hundred seventy-five thousand square feet and two hundred fifty rooms in the Blue Ridge Mountains. George Vanderbilt even cut the burden down, arranging the donation of eighty-seven thousand acres in nineteen fourteen to help form what became Pisgah National Forest. Then George died — and Edith had one choice that no other Vanderbilt wanted to make. In nineteen thirty, with the Great Depression beginning, she opened Biltmore to paying visitors for two dollars a ticket. This is the story of how one decision saved the last Vanderbilt “palace” — and why every other mansion fell first. #Biltmore #Vanderbilt #GildedAge #Asheville #AmericanHistory #HistoricHomes #LostMansions #Architecture #Documentary #Wealth Copyright & Fair Use Disclaimer • This video is a non-commercial, educational history documentary created for commentary, criticism and research. • Some archival photos and footage are used under the principles of Fair Use (Section 107, U.S. Copyright Act) for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.