What is the largest privately owned mansion in the United States?


What is the largest privately owned mansion in the United States? 1. Biltmore Estate (Asheville, North Carolina): 175,000 square feet. The Biltmore Estate isn't just the largest privately owned house in the United States — it blows the competition out of the water.


Do any Vanderbilts still live at Biltmore?

Though the family stopped living in the mansion in the 1950s, it is still owned and run as a tourist attraction by the fourth generation of Vanderbilt descendants.


What is the most famous mansion in America?

To recap, these are some of the most famous American historic homes:
  • Biltmore Estate.
  • Hearst Castle.
  • Oak Alley.
  • Graceland.
  • Mount Vernon.
  • Oheka Castle.
  • Longwood Mansion.
  • Nemours Estate.