uilt by community leaders Edith and Edgar Stern, Longue Vue's mission is "to preserve and use the historical and artistic legacy of Longue Vue and its creators to educate and inspire people to pursue beauty and civic responsibility in their lives."

Longue Vue strives to fulfill its mission by offering cultural and educational programs, to people of all ages and from all backgrounds, which are built upon our rich civic history and unique architectural, landscape and decorative arts elements.

Longue Vue has also been charged with the care and conservation of our National Historic Landmark, of which there are only 2500 in the United States.  We take this stewardship responsibility and engage in on-going conservation and maintenance employing best practice standards.

We hope that you will help support Longue Vue so that we can continue to inspire people through our engaging programming and magnificent house and gardens.  Monetary gifts may be directed to the following funds:

Unrestricted gift

Th Unrestricted gifts are to be used where most needed.  Unrestricted gifts are vital to the financial strength of Longue Vue House & Gardens and sustain the museum's mission, educational programs, conservation efforts and operational needs.

Historical Gardens Fund

You, your family, business or club can play a role in the plantings at Longue Vue by sponsoring a garden! Longue Vue is restoring the historic gardens using the planting plans of Ellen Biddle Shipman, the celebrated landscape architect who designed the original garden areas for Edith and Edgar Stern. These plans call for a continuous display of color and an exuberant variety of flowers. Please click here to donate on-line.

VIP Fund

The VIP Fund provides scholarships to all of our youth programming, including field trips, summer camp, family Lawn View events and others.

The “VIP” Fund, established in 1999, enables inner-city youth to participate in Longue Vue’s many programs, including: field trips, Saturday Dig, Do, Discover, special family Lawn View events and Summer Camp programs, at no cost.  After many years of working with individual schools, groups and youth programs, we have determined that this “open fund” approach provides Longue Vue with the greatest flexibility to meet the needs and prolific requests of our inner-city schools and groups that would like to participate in our unique youth and family programs. 

To provide you with a reference:
$50 – the cost for 2 families of 4 to attend a Lawn View event
$145 – the cost for one week of Summer Scapes camp
$300 – the cost for one class of 30 students to attend a field trip, including admission, bus fees, insurance

Collections Conservation Funds

Longue Vue is considered to be the masterwork of architects, William and Geoffrey Platt.  Longue Vue’s collection of more than 4026 pieces of European, Asian and American decorative and fine arts that span three centuries and reflect the taste elite Americans in the first half of the twentieth century.  The collections and the buildings that house them form a complete ensemble of mid-twentieth century design.  The decorative arts collection include furniture, metalwork, glass, Creamware and Pearlware ceramics, wallpaper, textiles and costumes, sculpture, botanical illustrations by Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Caroline Dorman, works by early modern artists including Naum Gabo, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Laurens, Op and Kinetic by artists Victor Vasarely and Yaacov Agam, and a collection of Walt Disney celluloid paintings. 

Your contribution to this fund will enable the Curatorial staff to ensure that objects in our collection are well-conserved, maintained and available for viewing and research.

Catherine Brown Fund, which provides funds for lectures and symposium
that address issues of environment, landscape and community development.

This fund will be particularly instrumental in addressing community recovery issues in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Currently, the Catherine Brown group is working with Longue Vue to help the historical neighborhoods of Pontchartrain Park and Gentilly Woods restore their communities through ecological, sustainable and historic landscape revitalization.

Gifts may be given in recognition of a birthday or anniversary or in memory or in honor of a special person.
Corporate Sponsorships are available for programs and our internationally known fundraising gala, Sentimental Journeys.

Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law. Contact (504) 488-5488 for additional information.

Longue Vue’s historical gardens, encompassing eight acres and a series of garden “rooms,”  were designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman, one of the leading landscape designers of the period who was called “the dean of American women in landscape architecture” by House and Garden magazine in 1934. Longue Vue is considered to be her master work.  The Wild Garden includes the contributions of Caroline Dorman, a leading Iris nativist.  From 1990 though 2002, Longue Vue engaged in significant garden restoration to ensure the health and historic authenticity of its gardens.  However, much of that progress was undone when Longue Vue lost two-thirds of its gardens in Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.  Responding quickly to the need for a recovery plan, Longue Vue, the Garden Conservancy and Heritage Landscapes, engaged in a planning process for the renewal of the landscape.  The result is the Landscape Renewal Project, which sets forth a plan to re-introduce the overall Shipman design, which had been diminished over the years and yield a sustainable, maintainable landscape that respects historical evolution and supports learning, enjoyment and access for users. 

Garden sponsorships will enable the Garden Department to provide spring, summer, fall and winter seasons of color. You may sponsor seasonal plantings in the garden of your choice for one full year or one season.

Through corporate sponsors and their annual commitment to Longue Vue, we are able to continue serving as a valuable educational and cultural resource to our community. Click Grounds for Growing to view many of our generous sponsors.

Purchase your sponsorship online

GARDEN SPONSORSHIP

Sponsor a Garden at Longue Vue

You, your family, business or club can play a role in the plantings at Longue Vue by sponsoring a garden! Longue Vue is restoring the historic gardens using the planting plans of Ellen Biddle Shipman, the celebrated landscape architect who designed the original garden areas for Edith and Edgar Stern. These plans call for a continuous display of color and an exuberant variety of flowers.

Garden sponsorships will enable the Garden Department to provide spring, summer, fall and winter seasons of color. You may sponsor seasonal plantings in the garden of your choice for one full year or one season.

In addition to the seasonal plantings, the Wild Garden needs 20 slash pines to shade the camellia walk and 15-20 large camellia bushes to replant underneath. A $250 donation will sponsor the purchase, delivery and planting of one pine tree of camellia.

To the left are the various garden sponsorship opportunities. Longue Vue will acknowledge each donor with a small sign next to the sponsored garden or tree throughout the duration of the donation. Gifts may be made in honor or in memory of a friend of loved one.

To purchase a gift or learn more, please call the
Development Office at 504-488-5488