Elizabeth I at Tilbury. The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington, and located in Los Angeles County at San Marino, California, near the Pacific Ocean western coast of the United States.
In addition to the Library, the Institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus in 18th and 19th Century European art and 17th to mid-20th Century American art. The property also includes approximately 120 acres of specialized botanical landscaped gardens, most notably the Japanese Garden, the Desert Garden, and the Chinese Garden.
As a landowner, a businessman, and a visionary, Henry Edwards Huntington, played a major role in the growth of southern California. Huntington was born in 1850 in Oneonta, N.Y, and was the nephew and heir of Collis P. Huntington, one of the famous Big Four railroad tycoons of 19th Century California history.
In 1892, Huntington relocated to San Francisco with his first wife, Mary Alice Prentice, and their four children. He divorced Mary Alice Prentice in 1906, and in 1913 married his uncle's widow, Arabella Huntington, relocating from the financial and political center of northern California, San Francisco, to the state's newer southern major metropolis, Los Angeles.
He purchased a property of more than 500 acres that was then known as the San Marino Ranch, and went
In addition to the Library, the Institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus in 18th and 19th Century European art and 17th to mid-20th Century American art. The property also includes approximately 120 acres of specialized botanical landscaped gardens, most notably the Japanese Garden, the Desert Garden, and the Chinese Garden.
As a landowner, a businessman, and a visionary, Henry Edwards Huntington, played a major role in the growth of southern California. Huntington was born in 1850 in Oneonta, N.Y, and was the nephew and heir of Collis P. Huntington, one of the famous Big Four railroad tycoons of 19th Century California history.
In 1892, Huntington relocated to San Francisco with his first wife, Mary Alice Prentice, and their four children. He divorced Mary Alice Prentice in 1906, and in 1913 married his uncle's widow, Arabella Huntington, relocating from the financial and political center of northern California, San Francisco, to the state's newer southern major metropolis, Los Angeles.
He purchased a property of more than 500 acres that was then known as the San Marino Ranch, and went
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