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Pizzalawyer ago

@zzzmmm333: Has the pool been located on the estate? I just learned. that the Biltmore's cafe restaurant consists of the original ornate horse stalls wherein the stalls have been converted to booths and the other side consisting of tables where the. other half of the horse stalls probably were. The number of remaining stalls is quite large . This facility is not to be confused with present day equestrian center. .

The stalls look like "tie stalls" wherein the horse is tied for the day with no room to move. You might see thisat show grounds where you are trying to cram in as many visiting horses as possible. The estate was built pre-auto.so if there were grand parties or a hunt, the horses would have to be put up somewhere.

Ive mentioned before the utilitarian quality of the pool and speculated that it might have been a pool for horses. So....after all this, is the pool near today's Stable Cafe?