7 Stuyvesant RoadBiltmore Forest, NC 28803Price: $8,900,000

RARE, REFINED REMARKABLE. Your life unfolds inspired by a paradise of privacy, peace and perfection. Views of distant blue mountains are punctuated by the expansive fairways and greens of the fabled Biltmore Forest Country Club. Landscape worthy of a botanical garden envelops your life. This signature estate was designed by Richard Sharp Smith, supervising architect of the Biltmore House. Commissioned by Burnham S Colburn, who served on the Board of Edith Vanderbilt's Biltmore Company, he was a charter member of the Biltmore Forest Country Club and oversaw the nascent development of the Town of Biltmore Forest. One of the original three homes built in the Forest and sited on one of the prime lots. it was celebrated at the 100th anniversary of the Town and the Club. It is sited in the area known as the Golden Horsehoe, a reference to the horse shoe shaped area around the golf course populated by the early mansions of the Roaring 20s. This century has brought an addition designed for open modern living including a spacious kitchen open to the vaulted family room, a screened view porch with built in grill, hardscape and landscape featuring a pool and spa,a pool recreation room with a kitchen and second billiards room or exercise room, croquet and bocci lawns, new computer controlled electric, plumbing, HVAC, slate roof on the main house, thermopane windows, remodeled baths, a theater room, a 100kw generator, lwells for landscape and an attached garage. Blending the finest in modern living with the patina of history, this estate is for the discriminating buyer who demands a location and livability second ot none. The Town of Biltmore Forest is located less than ten minutes from vibrant downtown Asheville and less than twenty minutes from the regional airport, Surrounded by fine dining and shopping it is bordered by the Blue Ridge Parkway and hosts a part of the Mountain to Sea Trail. It has its own police force, a private Country Club and pre k to 12th grade day school and medical offices. Carved from the Biltmore Estate in 1922 the Town offers many opportunities to its residents for recreation and socialization.Its peaceful serpentine roads lead past streams to parks and a bass pond. It is a haven for walkers and bikers. Enjoy the finest of mountain living.