Longue Vue, #7 Bamboo Road, New Orleans, LA 70124
We are open to the public daily. Monday-Saturday 10:00 AM-4:30 PM, Sunday 1:00 PM-5:00 PM.
Experience the history and beauty of Longue Vue House and Gardens, a National Historic Landmark in New Orleans, Louisiana. Longue Vue features Classical Revival style buildings and landscaped gardens, a magnificent collection of European and American decorative and fine arts pieces, museum exhibits, entertaining tours, educational programs, and a delightful museum shop.
The estate was designed in 1939-1942 for philanthropists Edgar Bloom Stern, a New Orleans cotton broker, and his wife Edith Rosenwald Stern, an heiress to the Sears-Roebuck fortune. The site is a collaborative tour-de-force, combining the landscape and interior design of Ellen Biddle Shipman, the architectural genius of William and Geoffrey Platt, and the horticultural knowledge of Caroline Dormon, with the informed patronage of the Sterns. With colorful seasonal blooms, Longue Vue provides a memorable experience year-round.
America’s Castles
“One of the greatest gifts given by the Sterns to the city [community] of New Orleans was kept private until 1980, decades after construction of their splendid urban estate, Longue Vue.”
Richard Guy Wilson, architectural historian
“Together they [Ellen Biddle Shipman and William and Geoffrey Platt] created for the Sterns, a complete setting, of house and garden, that looks back to English and Italian precedent, and also to the architecture of the American south. But, neither the house nor the garden are copies, but rather careful adaptations and transformations that are thoroughly original. The garden with its various terraces and spaces, the interior of the house with its paneling and furnishings mark a high point in American design.”
New York Times
“The Sterns were astute collectors of traditional furniture and decorative arts, as well as contemporary art. The high points in their collections are English and American antiques, creamware and antique needlework. The effect is as if the family was still living there.”
House Beautiful
“This is no ordinary house and garden museum with awed visitors lingering over English antiques and rare porcelains, studying Ellen Shipman’s axial paths and vistas. Longue Vue has its share of those, but it also has “everyday of the school year” busloads of inner-city schoolchildren who come to learn about gardening, ecology and conservation.”
Southern Living
“One of the country’s finest city estates, Longue Vue still emanates the warmth and graciousness of its former owners.”
