The Archives staff also has the primary responsibility for the preservation, inventory, organization, storage, exhibit, display and use of the Cultural Properties Collection. Cultural Properties are objects that were designed or acquired for specific campus locations as a means of enhancing the environment and educational programs. This includes all works of art, furniture and fixtures at Cranbrook House, Thornlea, the Institute of Science and the four schools: Brookside, Cranbrook, Kingswood and the Boys Middle School, as well as the surviving clothing and accessories owned and used by the Booth family.

New Research: the Fontana dei Tritoni
On the hill to the north of Cranbrook House is a fountain commonly referred to as the "Fountain on the Mountain".  Recent research by Archives' intern, Matthew Kroll, uncovered the story and meaning behind the fountain.  Purchased by George Booth in Feb 1922 from the Sangiorgi Gallery (which was located on the ground floor of the Borghese Palace in Rome), the fountain is a reproduction of the Fontana dei Tritoni in the Piazza Bocca della Verita.  In 1717, Pope Clement XI commissioned sculptor Carlo Bizzaccheri to erect the fountain (also known as Fontana della Bocca della Verita) as part of a project to refurbish the square outside the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.  Bizzaccheri used the Pope's family crest as his inspiration for the basin of the original fountain which is in the shape of an eight-pointed star.  Two powerful, scaly tritons rise above a group of rocky outcrops and are decorated with aquatic plants. The huge tritons are kneeling back-to-back with their tails entwined, and their arms raised to support a second basin shaped to look like an open seashell.  Cranbrook's Fontana dei Tritoni was shipped from Italy in May 1922 and installed at Cranbrook House.