Longue Vue House and Gardens, also known as Longue Vue, is a historic house museum and associated gardens at 7 Bamboo Road in the

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neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The former home of Edgar Stern and

Edith Rosenwald Stern Edith Rosenwald Stern (1895–1980) was an American philanthropist and champion of educational causes in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. She was instrumental in formation of the David Stern (activist)#Stern Family Fund, Stern Family Fund a ...

(daughter of Julius Rosenwald), the current house is in fact the second. The original house and gardens began in 1924. In 1934,

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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,

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, 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 ''

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s, caladium, '' Callicarpa americana'', camellia, '' Canna'', ''

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ciliatum'', tulips, vitex, and '' Zingiber zerumbet''. Longue Vue was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, and further was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2005. It was deemed nationally significant for its association with Shipman, and as the only major work of Shipman's where she exerted complete creative control over the landscape. Following damage by

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, volunteer and staff labor later enabled the house to reopen for tours.

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