The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is 150 acres of breathtaking gardens, three art galleries and a library of magnificent collections of rare books and manuscripts, 18th and 19th century British and French art, and American art from the 18th to the early 20th century. Highlights include Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, Lawrence's Pinkie, the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1410), the Gutenberg Bible (c.1455), original letters of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Lincoln, and an unsurpassed collection of early editions of Shakespeare. The Huntington was founded by railroad and real estate magnate Henry Edwards Huntington in 1919. Henry Huntington created the famous Red Trolly Line that spaned most of the cities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties in Southern California. Huntington Beach is named after Henry Huntington. The galleries, library exhibits, and botanical gardens opened to the public in 1928, a year after Mr. Huntington's death. CLICK ON A PHOTO TO ENLARGE AND READ COMMENTS.