The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, was founded in 1919 by Henry E. Huntington and his wife, Arabella. Myron Hunt designed the Huntington residence in 1909, now the Art Gallery, and the library building in 1920. The library is described as Mediterranean Revival, and the gallery as a Georgian mansion.
The gardens cover about 120 acres (49 ha) and include Japanese, Chinese, Desert, Rose and Camellia gardens. A fire damaged the Art Gallery in 1985, and it reopened in 1986.
The library holds 7 million manuscript items and over 400,000 rare books, including a vellum Gutenberg Bible, the Ellesmere Chaucer and Isaac Newton's annotated Principia. The Art Gallery shows British and French works, including The Blue Boy. The Huntington drew about 1,014,000 visitors in 2022.
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