Asheville Adventure, Biltmore Estate Asheville North Carolina The Story of the Biltmore House in Asheville North Carolina:  Over a six-year period, an entire community of craftsmen worked to build the country's premier home. The estate boasted its own brick factory, woodworking shop, and a three-mile railway spur for transporting materials to the site.  A New World Château - Architect Richard Morris Hunt modeled the house on three châteaux built in 16th-century France. It would feature 4 acres of floor space, 250 rooms, 34 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, and 65 fireplaces. The basement alone would house a swimming pool, gymnasium, bowling alley, servants' quarters, kitchens, and more.  The grounds of the 125,000-acre estate were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the creator of New York's Central Park and the father of American landscape architecture. Olmsted not only developed acres of gardens and parkland, but in his efforts to protect the environment and reclaim over-farmed land, Olmsted established America's first managed forest.   Visit Asheville North Carolina, see the Biltmore House, tour Downtown Asheville and historic Biltmore Village.