Edith Stern

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Birth Date:
31.05.1895
Death date:
11.09.1980
Length of life:
85
Days since birth:
47095
Years since birth:
128
Days since death:
15944
Years since death:
43
Person's maiden name:
Rosenwald
Cemetery:
Set cemetery

Birthdate: May 31, 1895 (85)

Birthplace: Chicago, Cook, IL, USA 

Death: September 11, 1980 (85) 

Longue Vue House and Gardens, also known as Longue Vue, is a historic house museum and associated gardens at 7 Bamboo Road in the Lakewood neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

The former home of Edgar and Edith Stern (daughter of Julius Rosenwald), the current house is in fact the second. The original house and gardens began in 1924. In 1934, landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman began to work with the Sterns on the designs of their gardens. Through the re-working of the gardens the Sterns decided that their house did not allow them to fully enjoy their new grounds, and the original house was subsequently moved and a new one erected in its place starting in 1939.

This new house was designed by architects William and Geoffrey Platt whose father, Charles A. Platt, was Shipman’s mentor. The four facades of the house have four different appearances and out each of the four sides there is a different garden. It has 20 rooms on three stories, with original furnishings.

The gardens include Asclepias tuberosa, azaleas, caladium, Callicarpa americana, camellia, CannaChionanthus retusus, chrysanthemum, crape myrtle, cyclamen, DelphiniumFicus caricaGossypium, hydrangea, Koelreuteria bipinnata, Louisiana irises, Lycoris aureaNarcissusPassiflora incarnataPhytolacca americanaEuphorbia pulcherrima, roses, Stigmaphyllon ciliatum, tulips, vitex, and Zingiber zerumbet.

Longue Vue was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, and further was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2005. It was deemed nationally significant for its association with Shipman, and as the only major work of Shipman's where she exerted complete creative control over the landscape.

Following damage by Hurricane Katrina, volunteer and staff labor later enabled the house to reopen for tours.

Source: wikipedia.org

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        Relations

        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Julius RosenwaldJulius RosenwaldFather12.08.186206.01.1932
        2Augusta NusbaumAugusta NusbaumMother27.12.186823.05.1929
        3William RosenwaldWilliam RosenwaldBrother19.08.190331.10.1996
        4Lessing J. RosenwaldLessing J. RosenwaldBrother10.02.189124.06.1979
        5
        Marion AscoliSister19.03.190201.10.1990
        6
        Adele Deutsch LevySister
        7Sophie  AdlerSophie AdlerAunt05.01.187107.05.1955
        8Julius Rosenwald, IIJulius Rosenwald, IINephew29.08.191402.11.2003
        9
        Samuel RosenwaldGrandfather
        10Augusta HammersloughAugusta HammersloughGrandmother

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