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The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, [a] is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California, United States.
One of the Huntington Library's most botanically important gardens, the Desert Garden brought together a group of plants that were largely unknown and unappreciated in the early 1900s. Featuring a broad category of xerophytes (aridity-adapted plants), the Desert Garden grew to preeminence and remains today among the world's finest, with more ...
The Desert Garden Conservatory is a large botanical greenhouse and part of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California. [1] It was constructed in 1985. The Desert Garden Conservatory is adjacent to the 10-acre (40,000 m 2 ) Huntington Desert Garden itself.
Huntington was a Life Member of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of California. [8] Huntington retired from business in 1916. On May 23, 1927, Henry E. Huntington died in Philadelphia while undergoing surgery. He and Arabella are buried, with a large monument, in the Gardens of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. [9]
Collections of The Huntington Library — artworks in The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, located in San Marino, Los Angeles County, California. Pages in category "Collection of the Huntington Library"
It predates all of the major art museums of Southern California. and remains active today. [3] In 1907, Arabella Huntington, whose Southern California home is now the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, purchased Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer (1653) for her house in Paris.
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Open-air museums in California (5 C, 67 P) Pages in category "Historic house museums in California" The following 137 pages are in this category, out of 137 total.