So beautiful Welcome back to Period Dramas, a weekly column that alternates between rounding up historic homes on the market and answering questions we?ve always had about older structures.
While a number of 18th- and 19th-century mansions were built as summer retreats, if you ask us?they look best with a dusting of snow.
Thankfully for us, the past few months have brought their fair share of winter weather (we?re looking at you, bomb cyclone). From Asheville to Newport, we?ve rounded up our favorite mansions that become even dreamier after a snow storm.

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Biltmore - Asheville, North Carolina
Completed in 1895 for George Washington Vanderbilt II, Biltmore is perhaps best known as America?s largest Gilded Age mansion. Prominent architect Richard Morris Hunt designed the 250-room house, which spans over 175,000 square feet. While the house is open to the public, it remains privately owned by Vanderbilt descendants.
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James J. Hill House - St. Paul, Minnesota
Built for railroad tycoon James J. Hill in 1891, the Richardsonian Romanesque mansion encompasses over 36,000 square feet along St. Paul?s posh Summit Avenue. The mansion was designed by the Boston-based architectural firm Peabody, Stearns, and Furber?a favorite of the Newport crowd.

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