The HIDDEN Cost of Building America's Greatest Mansion: Lives, Scandal, and Sacrifice

Описание: The HIDDEN Cost of Building America's Greatest Mansion: Lives, Scandal, and Sacrifice

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Step inside the making of America’s largest private home—and the hidden human cost buried behind its beauty. In this episode, we follow George Washington Vanderbilt from bookish black sheep to the mastermind behind Biltmore Estate, a French-style castle dropped into the mountains of North Carolina.

But this isn’t just a story of wealth and architecture. It’s about the thousand workers who carved, hauled, and risked their lives to build it; the racial inequality baked into their pay; and the two women who later had to save this Gilded Age dream from financial ruin. From private railroad lines and experimental forests to scandal, sacrifice, and survival, Biltmore’s story reveals the true price of America’s greatest mansion.

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