NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Tucked away in Lakewood is a house that has so much history behind it, it’s hard to take it all in on one tour. The Longue Vue House was built in 1942 and sits on eight acres of land. The mansion belonged to Edith and Edgar Stern, who were well-known in the New Orleans community.
The house, a national historic landmark, has three stories – including a basement, which is unusual for New Orleans since most of the city is below sea level. The house has 20 rooms with the original furnishing. European and Eastern European carpets lay on the antique floors throughout the house with modern and contemporary art that hang on the walls.
In the basement, there’s a special piece of technology that is rarely seen anymore. Not only will you find a large wine cellar, a dark room for photography and the boiler room, you’ll find one of the finest technologies back in the early 1900s. A central AC and heating unit still hums in the basement of this mansion.
“It’s the same system that we’ve been using since the house was built,” said Lenora Costa, who runs the operations at the mansion. “We had the boiler, and chilled water that blows through the system and cools everything throughout the house, or heats it.”
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