The last castle : the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home
by Kiernan, Denise (Author)
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Summary
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. Full description
Table of Contents:
- 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.