TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kiernan,Denise
TI  - The last castle: the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home 
T2  - Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
SN  - 9781432848231
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
KW  - Vanderbilt, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser,
KW  - Vanderbilt, George Washington,
KW  - Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.)
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Large type books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -