Field Session

MON-FS-09: Longue Vue House and Gardens: Exploring the Legacy of Ellen Biddle Shipman

Field Session Leader(s)

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  Lenora Costa

  Deputy Director, Collections
  Longue Vue House and Gardens
  New Orleans, Louisiana
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  Kelli Cunningham, ASLA, PLA, AIA

  Principal
  Waggonner & Ball
  New Orleans, Louisiana

Field Session Presenter(s)

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  Stella B. Landis

  Executive Director
  Longue Vue House and Gardens
  New Orleans, LA

Longue Vue House and Gardens, courtesy Diego Bernal Photography

This session will focus on Longue Vue House and Gardens, a century-old estate designed by renowned landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman. We’ll tour the site’s gardens, analyze the house design as a reinforcement of the landscape, and discuss the estate’s current role as a nonprofit museum and public garden.

Includes transportation and house and garden tour ticket.

Accessibility: Portions of the garden include gravel paths.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the context, ethos, and design philosophy of pioneering landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman.
• Study the Longue Vue House as a work of architecture uniquely designed to reinforce its landscape.
• Learn about the evolution of the Longue Vue Gardens over the course of the last eight decades.
• Discuss Longue Vue’s model for sustaining revenue streams and expanding its community impact as a heritage work of landscape architecture.