The Biltmore features a garden inside the house for its residents to retreat to during winter.
A table large enough for the Vanderbilts and their guests to sit at.
The room is still set as if it is waiting for guests to sit at the table and eat.
The Biltmore contains many rooms that seem to exist just to provide a place to sit and talk.
In the days before recorded music, if you wanted to listen to music you would have to know someone who could play and provide them a place to do it.
The Biltmore contains a very wide collection of books distributed among the many rooms.
A mural decorates the ceiling in this room depicting the angels playing.
One of many portraits depicting one of the residents of the Biltmore.
Inside the Biltmore are paintings depicting the seven virtues of the Catholic faith.
Here the past residents of the Biltmore Estate are immortalized.
Mr. Vanderbilt would retire here during the night.
The Biltmore is big enough where residents might not see each other over the course of an entire day.
The large winding staircase is lit with an equally stunning multi-tiered lighting fixture.
What's a mansion without a bowling alley?
The arched ceiling in this room was designed by the same architech that created the arch ceiling for The Basilica of St. Thomas
Be sure to get your exercise in at the indoor gym.
The Vanderbillt's meals were prepared in this kitchen. Those are also the original pots and pans.
Laundry machines have come a long way from these large machines.
The peftect place to play a game of pool.
