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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
Doris Corbett Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2010-08
Abstract
Doris Corbett was a history professor and well-known singer and ballad composer, teaching and performing throughout the United States and Canada. While pursuing her doctorate in history, Ms. Corbett’s research brought her to Cranbrook to study the Arts & Crafts movement, Ellen Scripps Booth, and Nellie Beveridge Gray. The bulk of the collection consists of Ms. Corbett’s research of Ellen Scripps Booth and Nellie Beveridge Gray. Of particular note are the transcripts of the oral histories...
Dates:
Circa 1873-1989
Cranbrook Foundation Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 1981-05
Abstract
The Cranbrook Foundation was established on November 28, 1927, by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. It was a trust and administrative entity to endow and support the six institutions that George and Ellen had founded: Brookside School Cranbrook, Christ Church Cranbrook, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook School, and Kingswood School Cranbrook. It's initial mission was, "to add to and strengthen the educational and cultural facilities within the...
Dates:
1926 - 1973
Cranbrook Founders’ Day Records
Collection
Identifier: 1996-09
Abstract
The Founders' Award recognizes those who have made a special contribution to Cranbrook. The first Founders’ Day Celebration was held at Cranbrook School on October 26, 1928. After dinner at the school, George Gough Booth made an address to the student body, formally conveying the school buildings to them, and speaking of citizenship. He also made a presentation to the school of Rembrandt Peale’s portrait of George Washington, to be hung in the lobby of the Commons. The formal address,...
Dates:
1928 - 1993
Saarinen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-08
Abstract
Finnish architect, Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was born August 20, 1873. In 1904 Saarinen married artist Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise “Loja” Gesellius (b. 1879). The Saarinen's daughter Eeva Lisa “Pipsan” was born in Helsingfors, Finland on 31 March 1905 and their son Eero was born in Kyrkslaett, Finland on 20 August 1910. In 1923 Eliel met the Detroit newspaper magnate George Gough Booth, who was to become his chief patron in America. At Booth’s invitation, Saarinen moved his practice to...
Dates:
1880 - 1989
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- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 4
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 4
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- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 3
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 3
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
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- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 3
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 3
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- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 3
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 2
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- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 2
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
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- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 2
- Maroti, Geza 2
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 2
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- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
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- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
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- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
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- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.). Episcopal Churchwomen 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Corbett, Doris 1
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- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
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- Detroit Industrial Mission 1
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- Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
- Eames, Charles 1
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 1
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
- Frayer, William Alley 1
- GM Technical Center 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Hvitträsk (Museum) 1
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- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 1
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- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Öhquist, Johannes, 1861-1949 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
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- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
- Sparre, Louis, 1863-1964 1
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- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 1
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