With its grand rooms and sprawling grounds, the real Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, gives A Biltmore Christmas much of its holiday atmosphere. The Hallmark production filmed there in January 2023, using the historic house, its gardens and The Inn on Biltmore Estate. A few additional locations in Asheville and nearby Hendersonville helped complete the setting for Lucy and Jack’s story.

For anyone hoping to recognize the places Lucy and Jack explore, the useful distinction is between Biltmore House and the wider estate. The production moved between the historic mansion, a separate hotel and other locations, bringing them together as Lucy’s trip slips from the present into the past.

Biltmore House Contains The Library And Banquet Hall

The Library is the room to look for if the hourglass caught your attention. Explore Asheville identifies it as the setting for the object that sends Lucy’s visit in an unexpected direction. That gives a real room a central role in the romance between Lucy, played by Bethany Joy Lenz, and Kristoffer Polaha’s Jack Huston.

The Banquet Hall is another recognizable stop. Lucy and Jack’s piano scene takes place in front of its imposing fireplaces, so viewers who remember that sequence can match it to a specific interior rather than simply looking for a large decorated room.

Biltmore’s production notes identify nine interior filming locations altogether. Alongside the Library and Banquet Hall, the crew used the Tapestry Gallery, Main Hallway, Staircase Hall, Vestibule and Winter Garden, plus the corridors around the Winter Garden and behind the Banquet Hall. The film’s version of Biltmore draws on passageways and entrances as well as its showpiece rooms.

If you want to revisit how the hourglass figures into the final reunion, our explanation of Lucy and Jack’s ending follows that part of the story in more detail.

The Inn Provides A Separate Hotel Setting

The Inn on Biltmore Estate supplied the hotel locations, including its lobby, Library Lounge and two guest rooms. These belong to the estate’s hotel, a separate building from the historic house Lucy visits.

Behind-the-scenes reporting describes how the lobby received a period reception desk for the 1940s scenes. Knowing that helps explain how the film moves so comfortably between a grand historic home and a hotel setting. They share an estate, while the production dressing brings them into the same period story.

The Gardens And Conservatory Expand The Setting

Filming also extended into Biltmore’s gardens and Conservatory, with the Loggia and Library Terrace providing exterior locations attached to the house. Those spaces let the story move outdoors while keeping the estate’s architecture close by.

The Conservatory and Winter Garden are easy names to mix up when planning a visit. The Winter Garden is inside Biltmore House, while the Conservatory is a separate glasshouse below the Walled Garden. A house tour and a walk through the grounds therefore cover different parts of the film’s setting, even when both involve rooms filled with plants.

Asheville And Hendersonville Supply Additional Locations

Beyond the estate, the production used Antidote, the cocktail bar at Chemist Spirits in Asheville’s South Slope. Local reporting also identifies office space above Jerusalem Garden Café in downtown Asheville. The upstairs office is the reported location, so a visit to the café’s dining room would take you to the same building rather than necessarily into a space seen on screen.

Hendersonville’s Historic Train Depot supplied another location outside Asheville. For a location trip, treat the depot as a separate Hendersonville stop. The estate covers much of the film’s setting, but following its locations takes you beyond the property and into a neighboring town.

Period Dressing Lets The Estate Span Different Eras

Biltmore’s existing rooms provided the architecture, while the production changed their appearance for Lucy’s journey through time. Four house interiors received 1940s treatments, and some were dressed in several ways to represent everyday life, a working movie set or a party. Rooms were also redressed for present-day scenes.

That continuity gives the time travel a familiar setting. Lucy can encounter a changed world while the building around her remains recognizable, allowing the film to spend more time on her growing attachment to Jack than on establishing an entirely new place.

Visiting The Real Locations

To see the Library, Banquet Hall and other house interiors, choose admission that includes Biltmore House and reserve a timed entry. Biltmore also sells grounds-only admission, so check what your ticket includes before booking a trip built around the film’s indoor locations.

Christmas at Biltmore offers daytime visits and Candlelight Christmas Evenings, with their respective admission options. Either can bring you closer to the movie’s holiday setting, though the seasonal decorations and visitor route may differ from what the production used. A house tour also carries no promise of access to the hotel guest rooms used during filming.

This guide covers the original A Biltmore Christmas. The later A Grand Biltmore Christmas has its own filming history, so keep the two productions separate when putting together a location itinerary. For Lucy and Jack’s story, start with the house, leave time for the gardens, and remember that a few of its settings lie beyond the estate gates.