The ceiling in the Salon | Bigkitty Gallery

Created on: Saturday 25 May 2019
Posted on: Saturday 24 February 2024
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You keep watch, and I'll go this way.

Wondering elephant

Winter Garden glass above

Windows in the staircase

Whole house call buttons

Where jarred food was kept

Where are you going?

What do you see?

Wall decorations in Billiard Room

Walkway to the gardens

Walking around the Italian Garden

View towards the mountains out back

View off the patio

View of the tapestry above this fire place

View of the South Terrace from third floor

View of the field in front of the estate

View of the Conservatory

View of the back of the Biltmore Estate

View into the Banquet Hall from the hallway above

View above the fireplace in the Banquet Hall

Video played talking about the estate's history

Upstairs hallway

Up close picture 2

Up close picture 1

Underground hallway

Under the train track

Tyrolean Chimney Room - view 3

Tyrolean Chimney Room - view 2

Tyrolean Chimney Room - view 1

Train track inside the Conservatory

Top view of the indoor pool

Time to go somewhere

Thomson's Gazelle Info

Third floor Living Hall - view 2

Third Floor Living Hall

The Vanderbilt Family at the statue in the front

The tigers who live here

The Third Floor Living Hall - view 3

The Tapestry Gallery - view 2

The Tapestry Gallery - view 1

The statues of the people listed on the sign

The sign for the people gathered in the Banquet Hall

The Salon - view 2

The Salon - view 1

The Music Room - view 3

The Music Room - view 2

The Music Room - view 1

The middle of the Winter Garden

The Library above the mantel and ceiling view

The Library - view 2

The Library - view 1

The Gardens Railway in the Conservatory

The flowers on the table in the Salon

The elephants hanging out over here

The different people represented in the Banquet Hall

The ceiling in the Salon

Taxidermy decorations in the Banquet Hall

Tapestry in Banquet Hall

Swimming back to climb out and do it again

Sitting room along the hallway

Sitting room - view 2

Sitting room - view 1

Sitting area of a bedroom

Sign for Louis XV Room

Side view of the Rose Garden in early spring

Serving Dishes decorating the Banquet Hall

Serving dish closet

Servant's dining room

Seeing his flips from below

Sea lions and Harbor seals playing - seen from below

Sea lions and Harbor seals having fun - seen from above

Sea Lion Information

Room name card - Van Dyck

Room card - Madonna Room

Real pictures of Pauline and Cornelia

Real pictures of Edith and George

Real pictures of Cornelia and cousin John

Real picture of Florence Twombly

Real photos of George Vanderbilt, and Adele and James Burden

Pottery Storage

Polar bear having fun with bag flips - seen from above

Polar bear climbing up to flip backwards

Pipe organ in Banquet Hall

Picture of George Vanderbilt

Piano in the sitting room along the hallway

Photos of the statue people in the Living Hall

Pauline Merrill and Cornelia Vanderbilt

Part of the Garden Railway outside the Conservatory

Outside the Conservatory

Other upper view of the Banquet Hall

Other tapestry in Banquet Hall

Ostrich with ant mounds in the background

Nile Lachwes Info

Nice grandfather clock

Mural room in the basement

Motor for air to the pipe organ

More of the staircase

More mountain views

Model of the Estate stair wall

Mix of Nile Lechwes and Thomson's Gazelles

Martha in Edith's room

Martha and George in the Tapestry Gallery

Map of the Gardens and Trails

Lounging brown bear

Lounging around

Louis XV Room - view 4

Louis XV Room - view 3

Louis XV Room - view 2

Louis XV Room - view 1

Looking out through the covered walkway to the Rose Garden

Look at his flip!

Lion at the front of the house

Linens hang dry

Leopard roaming

Lazy white tiger

Landscape Highlights

Kitchen - view 3

Kitchen - view 2

Kitchen - view 1

Inside the Van Dyck Room

Inside the Madonna Room

Information about William Matthews

Information about the Walled Garden

Information about the Conservatory

Information about Fredrick Law Olmsted who designed the Gardens

Human watching time

House plants to welcome you in

Herd of Thomson's Gazelles

Harbor Seal information

Greater Kudu info

Great scratching post

Great details in the ceiling

Going over to the other Addra Gazelles

Going on the prowl

Glassware storage

Garden Train going by...

Further into the hallway

Full view of the indoor pool

Fringe-eared Oryx Info

Fringe-eared Oryx hanging out

Exercise room - view 3

Exercise room - view 2

Exercise room - view 1

Entry into the cold storage room

Entering the Walled Garden

Entering the Rose Garden

Edith's office - view 2

Edith's office - view 1

Edith's bedroom - view 2

Edith's bedroom - view 1

Edith and George Vanderbilt

Dumb waiter to send food upstairs

Downstairs dining

Door to china room

Details on the walls of the staircase

Decoration up the stairs

Crossing the driveway to the Gardens

Couple of Greater Kudu

Cougar scratching the branch

Cougar lounging

Cornelia and cousin John in a room

Conservatory ceiling

Conservatory - view 1

Closer view of Fringe-ear Oryx

China Storage - view 3

China Storage - view 2

China storage - view 1

Butler in the china room

Breakfast room lounge area

Bottom of the spiral staircase

Bookshelf in the Library

Biltmore Estate

BilliardRoom - view 3

Billiard Room - view 2

Billiard Room - view 1

Bigger group of Greater Kudu

Bed side of the room

Beautiful plants

Beautiful piece of furniture

Beautiful flowers in the Tapestry Gallery

Batting at the ball

Bathroom for the Louis XV Room

Basement staircase

Banquet Hall - view 4

Banquet Hall - view 3

Banquet Hall - view 2

Banquet Hall - view 1

Artwork in the staircase

Artwork behind the people

Artic Mural (going backwards)

Another view outside the Conservatory

Another great ceiling

Animals on the Safari ride p3

Animals on the Safari ride p2

Animals on the Safari ride p1

Along side of the Walled Garden

Addra Gazelle info

A Vanderbilt House Party - The Gilded Age

A tapestry without people in front of it.

A servant's room

A model of the house in the Conservatory

A model of the Conservatory

A higher view of the staircase

A globe near the Library Room

A different servant's room

A different hallway

A different bedroom

A bedroom - view 4

A bedroom - view 3

A bedroom - view 2

A bedroom - view 1

3D artwork along the wall

"So, do you have any questions about this Grassland area?" asks the Ostrich

"Oh, a group of humans coming by me."

"Oh this sun is so hot!"

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