Forest History Society Photograph Collection Sample Images: Biltmore Forest School / FHS277th

Image ID: FHS277
Image Date: 8/18/1904
Image Title: A mountain home of the better class.
Image Caption: Dr. C. A. Schenck's house. Pisgah Ridge, near Pink Beds. [This house was known as the Wicker Sharpe house and served as the summer residence for Biltmore Forest School founder Carl Alwin Schenck (1869-1955). The house was located near the "Pinkbeds", a 6000-acre tract of land on the Pisgah Forest named for the brilliant pink colors of rhododendron, laurels, and azaleas.]
Photographer: Foster, H. D., for the U.S. Forest Service.
Use Restrictions: Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information: Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.