Cranbrook House
Educational complex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Built 1904. Added to the National Register in 1973, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
The Cranbrook Educational Community is an education, research, and public museum complex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This National Historic Landmark was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth with his wife, Ellen Scripps Booth. It consists of Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook House and Gardens, and the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. The founders also built Christ Church Cranbrook as a focal point for the educational complex, though it is a separate entity operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. The sprawling 319-acre (1,290,000 m2) campus began as a 174-acre (700,000 m2) farm, purchased in 1904. The organization takes its name from Cranbrook, England, the birthplace of the founder's father.
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The record
| Property type | Building |
| Address | Lone Pine Rd., Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| County | Oakland County |
| Listed | Mar 7, 1973 |
| Reference number | 73000954 |
| Built | 1904 |
| Type of place | private not-for-profit educational institution, architectural ensemble, campus |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
| Contributing resources | 14 buildings, 1 structures, 70 objects |
| Standing | Yes |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | Lone Pine Rd., Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| Website | cranbrook.edu ↗ |
| Coordinates | 42.56953, -83.24558 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | River Raisin National Battlefield Park · 46 mi · on Park Atlas |
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Nearby in Oakland County
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Sources
Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 73000954. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.