Thread: America's Favorite Buildings - AIA Polling of the Public
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Old Posted Feb 7, 2007, 8:50 PM
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I hereby humbly submit for your consideration, No. 8 on the list:



Gah! Why do they call it Biltmore Estates? There's only one of them! Singular! Sorry, but that always drives me up a wall, and everybody needs at least one irrelevant pet peeve that they can take out and fondle from time to time.
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