Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum:

Felicia Molnar
Public Relations Manager
248 645.3329
fmolnar@cranbrook.edu

Cranbrook Institute of Science:

Stephen Pagnani
Head of Marketing
248 645.3224
spagnani@cranbrook.edu

Cranbrook Schools:

Clay Matthews
Director of Communications
248 645.3409
cmatthews@cranbrook.edu

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.

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.

1984-85   Schools are reorganized to create a single school, with Brookside School (a lower school), Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School (a middle school with gender-specific programs), and Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School (a co-ed upper school with appropriate gender-specific classes and traditions.)

1985   Cranbrook's endowment is bolstered through the sale of its Evening News Association (ENA) holdings

1986   Albert and Peggy deSalle Auditorium opens at the Academy of Art.

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.