The Biltmore house tour ends in the cellar, where guests--and their children--established a Halloween tradition of painting the walls. Think of it as a private graffiti salon.
I suppose visibility is visibility for floral designers.
The Biltmore boasted the first bowling alley in a private residence. Strike!
And a 70,000 gallon pool. It leaks.
Exercise didn't require as much equipment during the Gilded Age.
Whole pigs, raised on the estate, turned on this spit, feeding as many as 65 diners upstairs.
The spacious main kitchen was well-equipped with utensils and gadgets . . .
including a huge coffee grinder to slake the morning thirst for caffeine.
The servants ate here. Cozy, no?
They rubbed the sheets and towels against the washboard in this sink before running them through the wringer.
And then everything had to be ironed. No wonder it took a village to house the workers!
Vases had their own storage area.
The pantry was well-stocked with symmetrically arranged canned food.
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