Estates

Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Moses Cone Memorial Park (Cone Manor)

The textile baron’s Flat Top Manor—carriage trails and a widow’s ghost.

Asheville, North Carolina

Biltmore Estate

The largest private house in America—250 rooms, 1895.

Hearst Castle

San Simeon, California

William Randolph Hearst’s hilltop "Enchanted Hill"—127 acres of opulence.

Filoli

Woodside, California

The 1917 Woodside estate—the Dynasty house.

Vizcaya

Miami, Florida

James Deering’s 1916 Italianate palace on Biscayne Bay.

Winterthur

Winterthur, Delaware

H.F. du Pont’s 175-room museum—the finest American-decorative-arts house.

Olana

Hudson, New York

Frederic Church’s Persian-fantasy house above the Hudson.

Pocantico Hills, New York

Kykuit

The Rockefeller estate—four generations on the Pocantico hill.

Sonnenberg Gardens

Canandaigua, New York

The Thompson estate—nine gardens and a Victorian mansion.