The last castle : the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home /
Kiernan, Denise,
The last castle : the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home / Denise Kiernan. - Large print edition. - 665 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. - - Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction . - Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction. .
Includes bibliographical references.
A winter's tale -- A lady of the long man rising -- Rhapsody in mauve -- Collaborations and consecrations -- A crossing of some consequence -- New mistress -- Forest for the tress -- Births of the century -- Trials and toymakers -- The more things change -- High and dry -- Final crossings -- Washed away -- Homespun and a great war -- Freedoms and flappers -- Glimpse of a castle -- You might go home again -- Epilogue.
Documents the story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore, tracing George Vanderbilt's construction of his European-style estate and the efforts of his bride, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, to become its protector in the face of changing fortunes and times.
9781432848231 1432848232
2017051579
Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873-1958.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914.
Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.)--History.
Biographies.
Large type books.
The last castle : the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home / Denise Kiernan. - Large print edition. - 665 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. - - Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction . - Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction. .
Includes bibliographical references.
A winter's tale -- A lady of the long man rising -- Rhapsody in mauve -- Collaborations and consecrations -- A crossing of some consequence -- New mistress -- Forest for the tress -- Births of the century -- Trials and toymakers -- The more things change -- High and dry -- Final crossings -- Washed away -- Homespun and a great war -- Freedoms and flappers -- Glimpse of a castle -- You might go home again -- Epilogue.
Documents the story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore, tracing George Vanderbilt's construction of his European-style estate and the efforts of his bride, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, to become its protector in the face of changing fortunes and times.
9781432848231 1432848232
2017051579
Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, 1873-1958.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914.
Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.)--History.
Biographies.
Large type books.