Cranbrook House and Gardens

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In the summer of 1908, George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth - perhaps among the greatest yet least known of metro-Detroit’s philanthropists in the first half of the 20th Century - took up residence in their newly constructed Cranbrook House, and became the first family of means to live year-round in Bloomfield Hills. Their English-Tudor estate, a true Arts & Crafts style masterpiece designed by renowned Detroit architect, Albert Kahn, served as the active home for their family of seven for 40 years. At their manor, the Booths raised their children - homeschooling their two youngest - and conducted business on their 174-acre farm. From its onset, Cranbrook House also quickly became the hub from which the Booths created what would eventually become the Cranbrook Educational Community.

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