Longue Vue House Local Landmark
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Marker Inscription
Longue Vue House, designated a local landmark by the New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission. March 7, 1985.
Erected by New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission
The Story
Longue Vue House is a grand country estate on the edge of New Orleans, built in the early 1940s for the Stern family and celebrated for its formal gardens and refined Classical-inspired architecture. In 1985 the city's Historic District Landmarks Commission formally recognized it, protecting the house and grounds as a treasured local landmark.
Why it matters
It preserves one of America's finest intact examples of a 20th-century country-house estate and the philanthropic, civic-minded family culture that shaped mid-century New Orleans.
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