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We’re 80 pages in before Edith meets George Vanderbilt, and by then he’s already had his life changed by a visit to Asheville, where he became smitten with a mountain peak and ended up with 125,000 acres and a 250-room French-styled chateau, village, church and hospital. But Edith, whom Vanderbilt married in 1898, would leave her own mark on the home and on Asheville.
“The Last Castle” is not simply a story of a fancy house and how it was built. The book is subtitled “The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home,” and lives up to that by putting a very human face on both Vanderbilts. Indeed, Kiernan’s research is deep and she writes tellingly of a host of others who were instrumental to both the estate and the family, including architect Richard Morris Hunt, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and forester Carl Schenck. We also get asides on Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Teddy Roosevelt.
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