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Christ Church Cranbrook Records
Collection
Identifier: 1992-01
Abstract
In 1923, George Gough Booth wrote to the Rev. Samuel Simpson Marquis with his ideas for building an Episcopal church and school on the Cranbrook estate to serve the needs of the growing Bloomfield Hills community. Booth would fund the construction of the church and provide an endowment for its maintenance. After obtaining the agreement of Bishop Herman Page, hiring and architect and a contractor, a groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 5, 1925. Christ Church Cranbrook was consecrated on...
Dates:
1923 - 2002
Cranbrook Architectural Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 1989-01
Abstract
Records of the Cranbrook Architectural Office which was responsible for the supervision, inspection, approval and acceptance of all construction work at Cranbrook, beginning with Eliel Saarinen's leadership through its closure in the 1980s. The materials reflect the planning and building phases of the Brookside School (BS), Christ Church Cranbrook (CCC), Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA), Cranbrook House, Cranbrook Institute of Science (CIS), Cranbrook School (CS), Kingswood School (KS), and...
Dates:
1925 - 1987
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- Bonawit, Owen G. 1
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Buckberrough, John 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.). Episcopal Churchwomen 1
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 1
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 1
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Detroit Industrial Mission 1
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 1
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
- Swanson Associates 1
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