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Oct 27, 2023 · Sylvia Chamberlain (Jeanne Tripplehorn)—the wealthy Gilded Age widow with a scandalous past—has several similarities to Arabella Huntington. Like Chamberlain, Huntington was the second wife to ...
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. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th ...
Feb 16, 2022 · As a young girl, she caught the eye of a self-made, uneducated railroad magnate, Collis Huntington, who was 32 years her senior. Collis met Arabella at her mother’s boardinghouse in a rough neighborhood of hotels, brothels, gambling dens and slave auction houses in Richmond, VA. When Arabella was 19, she left Richmond and traveled to New York ...
Henry Edwards Huntington (February 27, 1850 – May 23, 1927) was an American railroad magnate and collector of art and rare books. [1] Huntington settled in Los Angeles, where he owned the Pacific Electric Railway as well as substantial real estate interests. In addition to being a businessman and art collector, Huntington was a major booster ...
Biography. The record of Arabella Huntington's early life is sketchy, and it is not known precisely when or where she was born. It was apparently in 1850 (the date on the mausoleum on the Huntington Library and Art Gallery grounds) or 1851 and probably in Virginia, but it is possible that she was born three or four years earlier than either of these dates.
Clara Elizabeth Prentice was born in Sacramento, California on 13 March 1860. [1] She was the biological daughter of Edwin D. Prentice (1821–1862), a Sacramento grocer, and Clara ( née Stoddard) Prentice (1824–1912). After her father's death, Clara was adopted by her aunt, Elizabeth Stillman ( née Stoddard) Huntington (1823–1883), and ...
Mar 11, 2020 · 2 nd Floor – H. E. & Arabella Huntington Mansion (SMR): Mrs. Arabella Huntington’s Dressing Rooms or “Boudoir”: upstairs above the Loggia there was a set of four (4) rooms next north of Mr. /Mrs. Huntington’s bedroom. The rooms were Mrs. Huntington large Wardrobe Room, a Sitting Room (3 French doors opened to the French fragrant ...
