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In 1888, Olmsted was 66 years when he journeyed to Asheville to meet Vanderbilt, who was 25 and had inherited a fortune of $13 million. The architect had a long history with the famous family: Vanderbilt’s father, William, had given Olmsted his first landscaping job back in 1848.
It wasn’t Olmsted’s first time visiting the Blue Ridge Mountains. Working as a journalist before the Civil War, Olmsted was dispatched to report on the South, writing that’s collected in his travelogue, “The Cotton Kingdom.”
“Landscapes move us in a manner more analogous to the action of music than to anything else,” Olmsted once remarked. “Gradually and silently the charm comes over us; the beauty has entered our souls; we know not exactly when and how.”
https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/biltmore ... wQjYXR1WJ/
It wasn’t Olmsted’s first time visiting the Blue Ridge Mountains. Working as a journalist before the Civil War, Olmsted was dispatched to report on the South, writing that’s collected in his travelogue, “The Cotton Kingdom.”
“Landscapes move us in a manner more analogous to the action of music than to anything else,” Olmsted once remarked. “Gradually and silently the charm comes over us; the beauty has entered our souls; we know not exactly when and how.”
https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/biltmore ... wQjYXR1WJ/
Oct 25 2021