ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A 37-foot Christmas tree is up in North Carolina at the Biltmore House.
Just 10 hours after the end of Halloween, workers maneuvered the big Fraser fir into the 70-foot tall banquet hall of the Asheville tourist attraction.
Hundreds of people were on hand as the horse-drawn carriage made its way to the entrance Wednesday.
It's no mean feat getting the tree in position. The tree is lifted from the carriage using more than a dozen long metal poles. It's then moved up the steps into the entrance hall and then makes a turn into the banquet hall.
Biltmore's Candlelight Christmas Evenings begin Friday and continues through Jan. 6.
The final step is raising the tree to a vertical position with ropes without damaging the chandelier, furniture or antique tapestries.
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