Architecture, LONGUE VUE, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
Longue Vue was built from 1939 to 1942 for philanthropists Edgar Bloom Stern, a New Orleans businessman, and his wife Edith, whose father was Julius Rosenwald, CEO of Sears. The Classical Revival style house was designed by architects William and Geoffrey Platt, and the eight acre garden by Ellen Biddle Shipman, the “Dean of American Women Landscape Architects”. This view shows the Spanish Court, which was inspired by the fourteenth-century Generalife Gardens of the Alhambra in Spain. The nine garden “rooms” offer a tranquil respite from the central business district of downtown New Orleans, just a twenty minute drive from Longue Vue.
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