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Huntington Library, built in 1920; its main reading room now is an exhibition hall. As a landowner, Henry Edwards Huntington (1850–1927) played a major role in the growth of Southern California . Huntington was born in 1850, in Oneonta, New York , and was the nephew and heir of Collis P. Huntington (1821–1900), one of the famous "Big Four ...
The library was officially founded in 1892 by Collis P. Huntington, [1] a Southern Pacific Railroad magnate whose summer home was in nearby Throggs Neck, Bronx.Its origins, however, were in the will of Peter C. Van Schaick, a local philanthropist, who set aside funds from his estate to build a free reading room to be donated to the village of West Chester, (now the Bronx) upon its completion.
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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.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens' 1911 tea room reopens Wednesday in San Marino after a three-year closure. (Christine House / Los Angeles Times)
Huntington Library Quarterly; Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West This page was last edited on 29 May 2023, at 21:41 (UTC). Text is ...
Pynchon, the great, press-shy postmodern novelist, will become an open book late next year, when the Huntington makes his papers available to scholars
The Carnegie Public Library served Huntington, West Virginia from 1902, until the opening of the Cabell County Public Library in 1982. [3]The Cabell County Public Library was the first public library "to be automated with a computerized circulation system and online catalog" in West Virginia.