Knoxville, TN is centrally located and only 1 or 2 hours from hundreds of amazing attractions such as the Biltmore. Checkout this video of the exterior near sundown:
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), the main residence, is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895[2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft (12,568 m2) of living area.[3] Still owned by George Vanderbilt’s descendants, it remains one of the most prominent examples of Gilded Age mansions.