Longue Vue House and Gardens
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Longue Vue
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Back view of the main house
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| Location | 7 Bamboo Rd., New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Coordinates | 29°58′36.31″N 90°7′23.13″W / 29.9767528°N 90.1230917°WCoordinates: 29°58′36.31″N 90°7′23.13″W / 29.9767528°N 90.1230917°W |
| Area | 8 acres (32,000 m2) |
| Built | 1939 |
| Architect | Platt & Platt; Ellen Biddle Shipman |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 91001419 |
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| Added to NRHP | September 20, 1991 |
| Designated NHL | April 5, 2005 |
Longue Vue House and Gardens, also known as Longue Vue, is a historic house museum and associated gardens at 7 Bamboo Road in the Lakewood neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
The former home of Edgar and Edith Stern (daughter of Julius Rosenwald), the current house is in fact the second. The original house and gardens began in 1924. In 1934, landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman began to work with the Sterns on the designs of their gardens. Through the re-working of the gardens the Sterns decided that their house did not allow them to fully enjoy their new grounds, and the original house was subsequently moved and a new one erected in its place starting in 1939. This new house was designed by architects William and Geoffrey Platt whose father, Charles A. Platt, was Shipman’s mentor. The four facades of the house have four different appearances and out each of the four sides there is a different garden. It has 20 rooms on three stories, with original furnishings.
The gardens include Asclepias tuberosa, azaleas, caladium, Callicarpa americana, camellia, Canna, Chionanthus retusus, chrysanthemum, crape myrtle, cyclamen, Delphinium, Ficus carica, Gossypium, hydrangea, Koelreuteria bipinnata, Louisiana irises, Lycoris aurea, Narcissus, Passiflora incarnata, Phytolacca americana, Euphorbia pulcherrima, roses, Stigmaphyllon ciliatum, tulips, vitex, and Zingiber zerumbet.
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