Today, we went to America’s largest home, Biltmore, in Asheville, NC. The house has 250 rooms, 90 bedrooms, 65 bathrooms, 175,000 sq. ft. (4 acres). The home sits on 8,000 acres with beautiful views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The home took six years and 1,000 workers to build. It was completed for George Vanderbilt to have Christmas at Biltmore in 1895. The home is still owned by the Vanderbilt family. No one has slept in the home for years. Every day there are thousands of people that visit the home. We estimated that today there were 3,000 people on the grounds. Of course, you can’t photo anything inside, but I can tell you every room that we toured (52) were beautifully decorated or demonstrated how the home was operated; kitchens, laundry, floral room, a kitchen just to cook meat (rotisserie kitchen). The home also had a bowling alley, swimming pool, and gymnasium.
Now to catch you up on a couple of things since last week. We drove to Greenville, SC, on Thursday and stayed at Paris Mountain SP. The park was built in the 30’s by the CCC. We just took it easy on Friday. On Saturday we visited Dean and Sue Loomis, our friends that we meet at Victoria Palms, Donna, TX. They are the couple in the picture with Connie in front of Biltmore.
On Sunday, we went to Christ Episcopal Church in Greenville with Dean and Sue. The church is one of the oldest churches in town. It’s huge, the campus takes up one square block near downtown Greenville. It was as close to “High Church” as Connie and I have seen. They used part of the 1928 prayer in the service. They had two services at 11:15; one contemporary and one Rite II. Great service.
Sunday afternoon we drove to Asheville and are staying at Mama Gurtie’s RV Park.
Now to catch you up on a couple of things since last week. We drove to Greenville, SC, on Thursday and stayed at Paris Mountain SP. The park was built in the 30’s by the CCC. We just took it easy on Friday. On Saturday we visited Dean and Sue Loomis, our friends that we meet at Victoria Palms, Donna, TX. They are the couple in the picture with Connie in front of Biltmore.
On Sunday, we went to Christ Episcopal Church in Greenville with Dean and Sue. The church is one of the oldest churches in town. It’s huge, the campus takes up one square block near downtown Greenville. It was as close to “High Church” as Connie and I have seen. They used part of the 1928 prayer in the service. They had two services at 11:15; one contemporary and one Rite II. Great service.
Sunday afternoon we drove to Asheville and are staying at Mama Gurtie’s RV Park.
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