Biltmore Estate place
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Claims (6)
George Washington funded
Biltmore Estate host_asserted
“I don't know if I have one handy. Or maybe I do. I'll show it in a second here. We'll do it later. The Biltmore. He starts buying up the land in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. Hires Richard Morris Hunt, family architect, and a …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 36:14
George Washington founded
Biltmore Estate host_asserted
“It really is weird. That's one of the dining rooms. I'm going to go through these kind of faster than we did before because I want to get to the basement. The basement is crazy. There's the Commodore. Again, look how dark these rooms are. T…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:22:14
Richard Morris Hunt founded
Biltmore Estate host_asserted
“This is built for the Wetmore family, and we discussed the Wetmores because they've had several bonesmen, a lot of more senators and house members from Rhode Island. That's the Wetmore family's home. And, of course, we can't forget the Bilt…”
▶ The Shadow State 51 Scroll and Key Pt. 1 @ 11:43
Biltmore Estate built_for
George Washington host_asserted
“now been donated to historical preservation societies so the public can uh go visit them anytime i got the season pass the yearly pass for uh newport because there's so many more houses i want to see so we're going to go back several more t…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 4 @ 12:52
Richard Morris Hunt built
Biltmore Estate host_asserted
“which is he did the 1870s remodel. This is built for the Wetmore family. And we discussed the Wetmores because they've had several bonesmen, a lot of more senators and house members from Rhode Island. That's the Wetmore family's home. And o…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 4 @ 11:23
Vanderbilt family funded
Biltmore Estate host_asserted
“It seems to me that the Vanderbilts cared only about the status, nothing about charity. I mean, they may have donated to some libraries, but every single thing they spent their money on was about building gaudy monuments to their great-gran…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:16:35
Mentions (22)
▶ 8:40
This is what I wrote. Biltmore Churchill. Because I went to, when we did our New England tour, I went to all of the Vanderbilt…
▶ 8:40
This is what I wrote. Biltmore Churchill. Because I went to, when we did our New England tour, I went to all of the Vanderbilt…
▶ 8:57
in Newport, Rhode Island, all of those big mansions. And on our way back, we had done the loop up to the upper peninsula of Michigan, came back through North Carolina and went to the Biltmore Estates for the first time. And that Biltmore Es…
▶ 8:57
in Newport, Rhode Island, all of those big mansions. And on our way back, we had done the loop up to the upper peninsula of Michigan, came back through North Carolina and went to the Biltmore Estates for the first time. And that Biltmore Es…
▶ 9:27
With that aristocratic English guy. And it's so satanic. It's not even funny. So that just like stuck in my head. The whole bottom of the basement is like crazy weird art. So I've seen this firsthand. Go ahead. I wonder if you can find that…
▶ 9:27
With that aristocratic English guy. And it's so satanic. It's not even funny. So that just like stuck in my head. The whole bottom of the basement is like crazy weird art. So I've seen this firsthand. Go ahead. I wonder if you can find that…
▶ 12:41
I don't. All right. Never mind. But I will post these pictures because you have to understand that I don't even have Google Chrome. I don't even know what that crap is. And I've been able to do this before, but whatever. You have to have so…
▶ 12:41
I don't. All right. Never mind. But I will post these pictures because you have to understand that I don't even have Google Chrome. I don't even know what that crap is. And I've been able to do this before, but whatever. You have to have so…
▶ 11:43
This is built for the Wetmore family, and we discussed the Wetmores because they've had several bonesmen, a lot of more senators and house members from Rhode Island. That's the Wetmore family's home. And, of course, we can't forget the Bilt…
▶ 35:41
of manhattan so and there's also a whole section of new york called stuvescent i think new yorkers pronounce that differently but i haven't been in new york so long i don't remember how they do it i said what do you know about george born i…
▶ 36:14
I don't know if I have one handy. Or maybe I do. I'll show it in a second here. We'll do it later. The Biltmore. He starts buying up the land in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. Hires Richard Morris Hunt, family architect, and a …
▶ 36:42
That lawn is immaculate. It's amazing. And they have a greenhouse. I have pictures of that that we'll show at the end if I can figure out how to do that on my laptop. Because I took personal pictures of all of the place in North Carolina. I…
▶ 37:11
130 acres at the time. They sold off a bunch of the estate later on to the forestry department. Had 250 rooms, 175,000 square feet. It's big. Indoor pool, library with 10,000 books, a bowling alley, and of course it costs a fortune. Funny t…
▶ 38:12
And they lived with the Biltmore for a time. He dies at the age of 51 during a routine appendectomy. Edith had to manage the estate, and they started selling it off to the public by 1930. So one other point about Biltmore, and I think I men…
▶ 38:42
And so there was a very big logistical project that had to occur even to create the Biltmore. And they went to the extent of ordering people to build the scaffolding of the level to which it was going to be built so that he could see the vi…
▶ 54:54
among some of these families. Well, you want to look at some of these houses real quick? Sure. I'll show a few first. And we've seen this before when we did this, when we started scrolling key, but when we started talking about Hunt, the ar…
▶ 1:16:05
the end of the trip where we went to the Biltmore. So hold on just a second. And I will get to that. While you're doing that, I just want to make commentary. You know, we talk about philanthropy being a fake tool for international diplomacy…
▶ 1:18:33
the resentment was very real with the reform that had to come out of that we had some labor reform very grudgingly and everything like that but the the people would never put up with this long term these people are making themselves into ki…
▶ 1:22:14
It really is weird. That's one of the dining rooms. I'm going to go through these kind of faster than we did before because I want to get to the basement. The basement is crazy. There's the Commodore. Again, look how dark these rooms are. T…
▶ 1:22:56
the biltmore was talking was totally they talked about him being bookish and into beauty that's the interior of the biltmore you're showing us right yes yeah well that doesn't look beautiful to me it doesn't look beautiful at all not you kn…
▶ 1:23:30
Again, very, very dark. And look at these heads. Completely different than the... And that's why I wanted... We actually scheduled this kind of at the last minute because I wanted to compare it to what we saw in Rhode Island. This is their …
▶ 1:29:03
More bathrooms. Yeah, there's a swimming pool with the ropes hanging on the side. That's in the basement. It's crazy. That's your tour of the Biltmore. That's amazing. It started with one man who doesn't have a whole lot of scandal in his p…