It's a tossup whether author Denise Kiernan loves Biltmore House or Edith Vanderbilt with more fervor, but the edge seems to be with the first mistress of the great Asheville estate. "I can’t say ...

If you’ve watched just one episode of the popular PBS television series Downton Abbey, then you’ll know that the show is set in the early 1900s in an extravagant manor in the English countryside and ...

ASHEVILLE - More than a century after famed entrepreneur George Vanderbilt and his wife, Edith, marked the first Christmas at their then-new Biltmore House, the time-honored tradition has continued at ...

Arguably one of Asheville, North Carolina's most popular tourist sights, The Biltmore Estate is grand. Dubbed America's largest home and private property in the country, the estate −including the ...

For every Mary Poppins, alas, there’s a Nanny West, the demanding, two-faced caretaker to baby George Crawley, introduced at the start of the fourth season of “Downton Abbey,” which began Sunday on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robbie Caponetto The shuttle to Biltmore House isn’t for the faint of heart. As we cruise through the vast estate in the North ...

Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, is a popular tourist destination known as "America's Largest Home." The estate was completed in 1895 for George W. Vanderbilt and designed by architect ...