Cranbrook Educational Community
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Cranbrook
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Cranbrook Art Museum
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| Location | 39221 Woodward Avenue Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
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| Coordinates | 42°34′3.4″N 83°14′36.9″W / 42.567611°N 83.243583°WCoordinates: 42°34′3.4″N 83°14′36.9″W / 42.567611°N 83.243583°W |
| Built | 1926–99 |
| Architect | Eliel Saarinen |
| Architectural style | 20th Century American |
| NRHP Reference # | 73000954 |
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| Added to NRHP | March 7, 1973 |
| Designated NHLD | June 29, 1989 |
The Cranbrook Educational Community, a National Historic Landmark, in the US state of Michigan was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. Cranbrook campus is in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills consisting of Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of Science and Cranbrook House and Gardens. The founders built Christ Church Cranbrook as a focal point in order to serve the educational complex, though the church is a separate entity under the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. The sprawling, 319 acre (129 hectare) campus began as a 174-acre (70 ha) farm, purchased in 1904. The organization takes its name from Cranbrook, England, the birthplace of the founder's father.
Cranbrook is renowned for its architecture in the Arts and Crafts and Art Deco styles. The chief architect was Eliel Saarinen with Albert Kahn responsible for the Booth mansion, 1908,1919. Sculptors Carl Milles and Marshall Fredericks also spent many years in residence at Cranbrook.
Cranbrook Schools today comprise a co-educational day and boarding college preparatory "upper" school; a middle school, and Brookside Lower School.
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