This public domain image shows one of the Vanderbilt summer cottages, Biltmore House, now a National Historic Monument located near Asheville, North Carolina. It is still owned by Vanderbilt descendants. Modeled on the French chateaux styles, it is the largest private residence in the U.S. Construction began in 1888 and was completed in 1895. This image shows how it looked in the year 1900. The architect was Richard Morris Hunt, and the grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

This photo was taken by John H Tarbell of Asheville. Most of the photo credits we have seen for this photographer are from 1895 to 1905, though he was listed in the 1910 census as a photographer, living in Boston by that time. In the 1900 census he is shown in Asheville, age 50, born September 1849 in Massachusetts.