Coir, Mark
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Cranbrook House and Gardens Auxiliary Records
Collection
Identifier: 1995-11
Abstract
Henry Scripps Booth, youngest son of the Cranbrook founders, developed the idea of organizing an auxiliary for the purpose of helping to preserve and improve the gardens surrounding Cranbrook House. The inaugural meeting of the Cranbrook Gardens Auxiliary took place the 4th of March, 1971, at Cranbrook House. The success of this organization led to the creation of the Cranbrook House Auxiliary in 1975 to organize the use of Cranbrook House for receptions and provide information about the...
Dates:
1950 - 2002
Cranbrook Lower School Brookside Records
Collection
Identifier: 2002-04
Abstract
After various attempts at a school for young children in the area, the Bloomfield Hills School opened in 1922, occupying the Meeting House owned and built by George G. Booth at Lone Pine and Cranbrook Roads. With subsequent building additions by Booth and his son Henry Scripps Booth, the student body likewise grew from eight students in its first year to 101 by 1929. A private co-ed school for students in grades K-6, the school officially became Brookside School Cranbrook in 1930. Undergoing...
Dates:
1922 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1999
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- Architecture 1
- Art -- Study and teaching 1
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 1
- Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction 1
- Buildings and grounds 1
- Education 1
- Expenditures 1
- Flags 1
- Fountains 1
- Gardening -- Societies, etc. 1
- Gardens, Japanese 1
- Gymnasiums 1
- Historic house museums 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Performing arts 1
- Rare books 1
- Sculpture 1 ∧ less
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