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HistoryThe mansion was built by Moses H. Cone and his wife Bertha at the turn of the twentieth century.[2] Its construction was started in 1899 and finished in 1901. It has twenty-three rooms and {{convert|13000|sqft|m2}} of living space.[3] When Moses began acquiring land in the 1890s in the Blowing Rock area to build the house, he emulated George Vanderbilt’s Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Newspaper reporters of the time referred to these builders as "Farmer Cone" and "Farmer Vanderbilt". In 1898 Moses announced he was going to build a mansion in Blowing Rock that cost $25,000 when $200 would buy a habitable home in the area. LocationThe mansion is named "Flat Top" manor because of the nearness to Flat Top Mountain,[3] which Moses and Bertha also purchased. It is part of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The elevation in this area where the house is built is just at {{convert|4500|ft|m}}, while Grandfather Mountain, which is only a few miles to the south, has an elevation of nearly {{convert|6000|ft|m}}.[4] Moses used his estate to showcase his knowledge of scientific farming. It had extensive orchards, gardens and livestock.[5] When the Blue Ridge Parkway came through and the government took over the property several buildings on the land were torn down. These included houses for workers, a building where washing took place, and a single lane bowling alley. The bowling alley was located in a small building that resembled an elongated outhouse. Only men used the bowling alley, they would roll the ball down the lane and have to walk down the lane themselves to retrieve the ball and set the pins back up. To stop the ball a large bear skin hung on the back wall. The property included several apple orchards including one on a far end of the property called China because "it was on the other side of the world." The Moses H. Cone Memorial Park that contains the mansion is located between Milepost 292 and 295. The house is open to the public and there is no charge for admission. The first floor contains a Craft Center operated by the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild. It also has a National Park Service information desk and a book store. There are tours given by Park Rangers of the second story of the mansion. A visitor can sit in a rocking chair on the large veranda or walk the nearby self-guiding trail to the side of the manor house.[6] The hike around Bass Lake is the most popular. The Craft Center inside the mansion features a gift shop and a craft-person's workshop where various arts and crafts (i.e. pottery, wood craving, textiles, painting, drawing, needlepoint, crocheting) are demonstrated often. ArchitectureThe mansion's architectural style is Victorian Neo-Colonial.[7] and is an example of Colonial Revival construction of large white columns, leaded glass windows, and dormers on top of the house. At the turn of the twentieth century building the mansion with gaslights, a telephone, and central heating system was not an easy task. Building materials were hauled by horse-drawn wagons from the railhead in Lenoir, North Carolina, a distance of over {{convert|20|mi|km}}. This was the way all the fine furnishings and decorative items were brought in also to the mansion.[8] Moses's sisters, Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone, were art collectors who used some of their family's textile fortune to amass a premier collection of modern art. Their friend Gertrude Stein once visited Flat Top Manor. The artist Henri Matisse, another friend, was sent apples as a gift from the Cones that came from the estate property. The Cone Collection, with its extensive collection of Matisse and other works, is today housed in a special wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Flat Top Manor was a filming location for the movie "The Green Mile".[9] The Manor is featured as exterior shots in "Mandie and the Secret Tunnel" (2009) starring Dean Jones and Lexi Johnson. References
Footnotes1. ^First Annual Centennial Strategy for August 2007 2. ^Moses Cone Mansion / Parkway Craft Center 3. ^1 Moses H. Cone Memorial Park & Flat Top Manor 4. ^About Grandfather Mountain 5. ^Mountain Times article 6. ^Moses H. Cone Memorial Park 7. ^Moses H. Cone Memorial Park 8. ^Historic Blue Ridge sites - Moses Cone Manor 9. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/locations The Green Mile - filming locations] External links
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