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Oct 15, 2019 · Gomez told a nostalgic story about an afternoon’s meandering walk with Henry and Arabella through their San Marino ranch. The couple strolled north from their mansion while Gomez kept an eye on Buster, Mrs. Huntington’s ill-mannered dog. After some distance, Arabella, nearly blind and walking with difficulty, stopped and spoke to her spouse.
Arabella Worsham and Collis Huntington. Left: Arabella Worsham in a photograph taken by William Kurtz in New York, ca. 1880. . Right: Collis P. Huntington, 1879. Mariners' Museum and Park. When Arabella Worsham married Collis P. Huntington in 1884, shortly after the death of his first wife, she moved into his house at 65 Park Avenue.
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. After her death, the painting was inherited by her son Archer M. Huntington. He sold it in 1928, the year that the ...
ARABELLA D HUNTINGTON, ca. 1880 | COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON, 1879. As the only son of one of the wealthiest men in America, Collis Potter Huntington (1821–1900), builder of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Archer Huntington learned at a relatively early age to zealously conceal from the public eye details of his private life and finances.
May 19, 2020 · Mrs. Huntington owned two of these “Peacock Chairs”, (above) which the Huntingtons used on the Ranch Loggia (covered lanai or porch) at the San Marino Ranch. Photo Credit: Nancy Armitage. In everything she did, Mrs. Arabella D. Huntington had great “Southern Charm”. In her mansion’s decor, her tablescapes, her Southern hospitality ...
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Label TextArabella Duval Yarrington was born in the early 1850s, a daughter of Catherine J. and Richard Milton Yarrington, a machinist who died in Richmond in 1859. In the late 1860s she moved with her family to New York, where on March 10, 1870, she gave birth to a son ...
Aug 30, 2019 · Huntington as Futurist. Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927), sitting at his desk. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. One hundred years ago today, on a hot, dusty day in San Marino, Henry E. and Arabella Duvall Huntington signed the trust indenture that transformed their private estate into a public institution ...
