Le '''domaine Biltmore''' (''Biltmore Estate'' en anglais) est situé près d'Asheville en Caroline du Nord. Il abrite la plus grande demeure privée des États-Unis.

Dans les années 1880, George Washington Vanderbilt, le quatrièmre fils de William Henry Vanderbilt fréquentait souvent Asheville et sa région. Il décida d'en faire un lieu de villégiature. Il confia le projet à l'architecte Richard Morris Hunt et commanda un pastiche du château de Blois. Commencés en 1888, les travaux s'achèveront 7 ans plus tard en 1895. Il engagea également Frederick Law Olmsted pour le parc et Gifford Pinchot pour les forêts. À cause de ses problèmes financiers, Vanderbilt ne vit jamais la fin des travaux pour certaines parties du château et dut vendre des parcelles de son domaine au gouvernement fédéral (''Pisgah National Forest'').

Ce château sera de moins en moins habité jusqu'en 1956, année où le domaine est ouvert au public comme musée. Toujours propriété des descendants de la famille Vanderbilt, le Domaine Biltmore accueille chaque année près de 1.000.000 de visiteurs qui peuvent venir admirer ce palais disposant de tout le confort moderne avec une piscine intérieur de plus de 260 m³, une piste de bowling, un ascenseur d'origine (nouveauté à l'époque), et d'autres curiosités. Cette demeure est également très riche en oeuvres d'art et littéraires. L'ensemble du site est classé monument historique (''National Historic Landmark'') depuis 1963.

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'''Biltmore House''' is a French Renaissance-inspired chateau near Asheville, Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today as one of the most prominent remaining examples of the List of America's Favorite Architecture'' by the American Institute of Architects.

==History==
In the 1880s, at the height of the opulent summer houses in places such as Newport, Hyde Park, New York.

Vanderbilt's idea was to replicate the working estates of hog farms and a McKinley, Wilson and Nixon, and Charles, Prince of Wales.

Vanderbilt paid little attention to the family business or his own investments, and it is believed that the construction and upkeep of Biltmore depleted much of his inheritance. After Vanderbilt died of complications from an emergency appendectomy in 1914, his widow, Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, finalized the sale of 85,000 of the original 125,000 acres (506 km²) to the federal government (in respect to her husbands wish that the land remain unaltered), which became the nucleus of Pisgah National Forest. 

The estate today covers approximately 8,000 acres (32 km²) and is split in half by the William A.V. Cecil, II. In 1964, it was designated a National Historic Landmark.

==Tourist attraction==
350px|thumb|right|View of the west side of the house from the Shrub garden
In an attempt to bolster the Depression-riven economy, Vanderbilt's only child, Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, and husband John Amherst Cecil opened Biltmore House to the public on March 15, 1930.

The house was occupied less and less permanently until 1956, when it was permanently opened to the public as a house museum. Visitors from all over the world continue to marvel at the 70,000 gallon indoor swimming pool, bowling alley, turn-of-the-century exercise equipment, two-story library, and other rooms filled with artworks, furniture and 19th-century novelties such as elevators, forced-air heating, centrally-controlled clocks, fire alarms and an intercom system. It remains a major tourist attraction in western North Carolina, with more than 1 million visitors each year.

In 2005 the fourth floor of the house was restored and opened to visitors. Fourth Floor reveals the life of a Biltmore House maid, displaying a servants’ hall, bedrooms, bathrooms, and three house closets. The Architectural Model Room showcases Hunt’s 1889 model of Biltmore House, while the Observatory offers views of the estate from a central vantage point at the top of the main tower.

Besides the house, the grounds also feature approximately 75 acres of more formal gardens, a winery and the Inn on Biltmore Estate, a AAA four-diamond 213-room hotel.