Longue Vue House and Gardens National Historic Landmark Nomination
Turner S. 2005. Longue Vue House and Gardens National Historic Landmark Nomination. National Historic Landmark Nominations. 91001419_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is the National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination for Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. The NHL nomination for the Longue Vue House and Gardens documents its national significance under NHL Criterion # 4 as one of the best and latest examples of a late Country Place Era estate in the South. The twentieth-century design was the result of a unique collaboration between an outstanding woman landscape architect, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and the architects William and Geoffrey Platt, successors to the firm of their father, Charles Platt, who was a premier interpreter of the Country Place Era. Over several decades, Shipman and the Platts collaborated “inside and out” - in both the house and the gardens - to create an extraordinarily unified composition. The period of national significance is 1935 to 1952.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Turner, Susan
- Date of Issue
- 2005-04-05
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- Country Place Era, Louisiana, National Historic Landmark, New Orleans