Cranbrook's Significant Events

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

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