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Swanson Associates, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: 2009-01
Abstract
Swanson Associates, Inc., an architectural and planning firm that incorporated interior design, was established in 1947 by J. Robert F. Swanson and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson. In December 1965, it split into two affiliated companies, Swanson Associates, Inc., and Countryside Investment Corporation, which managed rental and investment assets. Pipsan was its director and the Swanson family owned its stock. In 1973, Ludwig Jorgensen negotiated the purchase of the Lone Pine Inn from the Cranbrook...
Dates:
1924 - 1982
J. Robert F. and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-01
Abstract
Jons Robert (Bob) Ferdinand Swanson (1900-1981) graduated from the University of Michigan School of Architecture in 1924, where he had and become friends with Henry Scripps Booth. In 1924, they established the architectural firm, Swanson and Booth. In 1927, the partnership dissolved and Bob established his own practice. Eva Lisa (Pipsan) Saarinen (1905-1979), daughter of Eliel and Loja Saarinen, studied weaving, ceramics, and fabric design at University of Helskini. She married Bob in 1926...
Dates:
1900 - 1983
Virginia Kingswood Booth Vogel Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1999-10
Abstract
Virginia Kingswood Booth Vogel was the only daughter of Ralph Harman Booth and Myrtle Mary Batterman Booth. Ralph Harman Booth was a cofounder of Booth Newspapers and a brother of George Gough Booth, founder of Cranbrook. As President of the Detroit Museum of Art and of the Detroit Arts Commission, Booth was responsible for the creation of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and served as the Institute's director as well as a member of its board of directors. Virginia Booth married William...
Dates:
1990 - 1998
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- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 7
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- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 6
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- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 4
- Cranbrook Foundation 4
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- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 4
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 4
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 4
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 4
- University of Michigan 4
- Booth, Ralph H. 3
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- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 3
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- Eastern Michigan University 2
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- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 2
- Gray, Nellie Beveridge (circa 1906-) 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
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- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
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- Michigan State University 2
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- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
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- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 2
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 2
- Suomi College 2
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 2
- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 1
- American Institute of Architects 1
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- Antioch College 1
- Ardolino, Edward 1
- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
- Bank of Montreal 1
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Bonawit, Owen G. 1
- Booth, Myrtle Mary 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
- Bromley, Kate Thompson 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
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- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
- Corbett, Doris 1
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- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
- Detroit Trust Company 1
- Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
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