| 1904 | George and Ellen Booth found Cranbrook. |
| 1908 | The Booths move into Cranbrook House. |
| 1922 | Bloomfield Hills School (now Brookside
School) is established. |
| 1925 | Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen
moves to Bloomfield Hills. |
| 1927 | Cranbrook School opens.
Cranbrook
Foundation is established by the Booths to help sustain the educational
and cultural development of Cranbrook. |
| 1928 | Christ Church Cranbrook is dedicated. |
| 1930 | Cranbrook Institute of Science is established. |
| 1931 | Kingswood School opens.
Carl
Milles, Swedish sculptor, begins working at Cranbrook. |
| 1932 | Cranbrook Academy of Art is established
under the aegis of the Cranbrook
Foundation; Eliel Saarinen is elected president of the Academy. |
| 1942 | Cranbrook Academy of Art Library and
Museum is opened.
Cranbrook
Academy of Art is established as an independent institution at Cranbrook.
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| 1948 | Ellen Scripps Booth dies. |
| 1949 | George Gough Booth dies. |
| 1950 | Eliel Saarinen dies. |
| 1973 | Cranbrook Educational Community is established
with three divisions:
Academy
of Art, Institute of Science and Schools. |
| 1984-1985 | Schools are reorganized to create a single school,
with Brookside School
(a lower school), Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School
(a middle school with a program for girls and a program
for boys), and Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School (a
co-ed upper school with a campus for boys and a campus for
girls with single-sex classes and traditions where appropriate.) |
| 1985 | Cranbrook's endowment is bolstered through
the sale of its Evening
News Association (ENA) holdings. |
| 1986 | Cranbrook publishes The Cranbrook Vision:
A Community Perspective, a
campus-wide planning document. |
| 1992 | Cranbrook opens a new Woodward Avenue
access to campus. |
| 1994 | The entrance and arrival features are constructed. |
| 1996 | Peter Rose's addition to Brookside School is opened. |
| 1998 | Steven Holl's addition to the Institute of Science is opened. |
| 1999 | The first phase of the Athletic Complex, Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's natatorium, is opened; renovation of the Institute is completed. |
| 2002 | Rafael Moneo's studio addition for the Academy of Art is opened. |
| 2004 | Cranbrook celebrates its centennial. |