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Tourists should be grateful for this approach to Biltmore. In 1890, with Chicago's World Fair (Columbian Exposition ) still three years off, and popular interest in art largely limited to pyrography, china painting and the confection of Turkish cosy corners, George Washington Vanderbilt, sensitive, shy, 22-year-old grandson of Commodore Cornelius, commissioned the bearded Beaux-Artist Richard Morris Hunt to build for him the finest private house in America. Architect Hunt, who had already sprinkled Newport and Fifth...
...five years British and Scottish stonemasons chipped and hammered in the Asheville woods while Mr. Vanderbilt toured Europe, sending back carload after carload of French furniture, Gothic cabinets, Jacobean tables, Japanese ivories. On Christmas day, 1895, Vanderbilts assembled to walk through the magnificent gardens laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of New York's Central Park, to attend the official housewarming of Biltmore House. An assembled chateau, it is designed chiefly after the Chateau de Blois. There was nothing in North America to approach it; no other Vanderbilt had so fine a home...
Biltmore originally covered 125,000 acres of North Carolina land, has been reduced by turning one section into a forest reservation, another into a village, to 11,500 acres. To house the 2,000 people employed on the estate, Paternalist Vanderbilt built a model village in the English Cheshire style, now a suburb of Asheville. Biltmore's first Chief Forester was Gifford Pinchot, later (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Here until his death in 1914 lived George Washington Vanderbilt, studying the dialects of the American Indian in his ornate library, helping his North Carolina tenants with their farming, issuing...
...literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thomas William Lamont, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Owen D. Young, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, Bishop William Thomas Manning...
...Museum of Modern Art, was established in the Heckscher Building, and when the name of Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and others of financial and social eminence appeared among the sponsors, anyone could see the handwriting on the wall: wealth is supporting radical art. Last month Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney announced plans for Manhattan's third museum of living art, to contain only U. S. works (TIME, Jan. 20), and last week it could definitely be told that, despite Mrs. Whitney's personal predilection for the traditional, here too modernists will be welcomed...