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[Music] sounds of morning blend with the Rising Sun [Music] the land lies green and cool Fiske on a tional forest near Asheville North Carolina [Music] late in the 1800s George Vanderbilt came to a forest where he was destined to leave his mark and thus set the pace for forests everywhere throughout the country Vanderbilt deeply felt its beauty and made a decision to build his home high upon a hill that overlooked the splendor of the woods to realize his American dream Vanderbilt approached the best architect of the time Richard Morris hunt who gladly accepted his new challenge and the challenge was named Biltmore [Music] even the humble Mountaineers were impressed by its grandeur now to create the ideal setting for the estate another famous man came to Biltmore Frederick Law Olmsted landscape architect whose reputation as a designer of parks stretched from Boston to New York they walked together these two men and together they planned the future of Biltmore it's 7,000 acres two men on