Long Vue House and
Gardens National Historic Landmark (N29⁰58’38” W90⁰7’27”) is operated
by a foundation on Bamboo Lane south of Metairie Road on the western edge of
New Orleans. The 1939 eclectic 22,000-square-foot three story house with
basement has circular themes such as rounded doors. The house was built by the
Sterns, who acquired the Sears Roebuck and Company fortune. Mystery house
features include a door into a wall, scales on floors, and a reading light in a
fake book. One room is now used as a modern art gallery and another has
traveling exhibits. The carriage house displays unusual wildflower sculptures. The
gardens and grounds include a live oak allee (live oaks with resurrection ferns
lining the entrance road), an azalea walk, the Pan Garden with Japanese
magnolias, the Portico Terrace, Yellow Garden with angel’s trumpet, Spanish
court with fountains, goldfish pond, walled garden with limes and oranges,
okra, and beautyberry, and a wild garden with a camellia walk and Louisiana
swamp iris walk.
Ecoregions: 73k (Mississippi Alluvial Plain, Southern
Holocene Meander Belts); NA409 (Mississippi Lowland forests)
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