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When the Price brothers won the competition for this great house in 1891, they were completing the Kenilworth Inn in Asheville, North Carolina. There they saw and were wowed by Richard Morris Hunt's Biltmore, the recreation of a French medieval palace for the Vanderbilts. “Woodmont” is the Price brothers’ attempt to master the new historical style. Originally set on six hundred acres, its still impressive property of fifty acres provides the conventional circuitous entrance drive that reveals and conceals the house within a landscape that encompasses wilderness and open fields. The house takes the form of a compact