Completed in 1895, the Conservatory embodies the late 19th-century passion for horticulture. It was a collaboration between George Vanderbilt, Fredrick Law Olmsted, the estate's landscape architect, and Richard Morris Hunt, who designed Biltmore House. Like other conservatories in the early 1900s, Biltmore's glass-enclosed building sheltered exotic and tropical plants from around the world, but it was much more than a pretty place to showcase rare plants; it also fulfilled Vanderbilt's vision of Biltmore as a self-sufficient, working estate.
(A trap door in the floor of the Winter Garden in Biltmore House allowed plants to be brought back and forth from the Conservatory without disturbing guests.)
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