where is biltmore estate located and explain its Tourist attraction?
In an attempt to bolster the Depression-riven economy, Vanderbilt’s only child, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, and her husband, John Amherst Cecil, opened Biltmore House to lease 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 (265 cubic meter) 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 also has pipes under the bass pond that pump debris-filled stormwater under the lake bed. It remains a major tourist attraction in Western North Carolina, with more than 1 million visitors each year.
