The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is located on 150 acres of land at 1150 Oxford Rd. in the city of San Marino, California. San Marino is best known for the financial wealth of it’s residents and for it’s proximity to the city of Pasadena http://pasadena.usacitydirectories.com. Many people, however, believe that the city’s biggest asset is the Huntington Library which is made of three art galleries and a library which “showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts”, and the botanical garden with a collection which “features over 14,000 different species of plants”.
The Huntington houses such treasures as “the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucers Canterbury Tales; a Gutenberg Bible on vellum; the double-elephant folio edition of Audubons Birds of America; a world-class collection of the early editions of Shakespeares works; original letters of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Lincoln; and an unsurpassed collection of materials relating to the history of the American West.”, 18th century British and French art, American art ranging...